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The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
Shaw, M. — Wong, C.
1ª Edición Julio 2015
Inglés
Tapa dura
242 pags
300 gr
18 x 24 x null cm
ISBN 9783319159218
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Description
This inclusive work presents a comprehensive update on vaccines for the international
traveller.
In over 21 chapters, written by leading writers in travel medicine from Australia,
New Zealand and Singapore, vaccinology for travel is explained in accessible
terms with a focus on practical information. An initial introduction to immunology
proceeds into common travel-related diseases and a risk-analysis for acquiring
them, followed by vaccine administration techniques and examples of how this
knowledge can be applied to the traveller with special risks including children,
pregnant women and mass travel. The book also provides a summary of current
clinical practice with respect to travel medicine in Australia, New Zealand
and Singapore.
This straightforward guide to the administration of vaccines for travellers
is intended to be the one-stop for the primary healthcare professional needing
authoritative practical information speedily. In addition to basic knowledge
in vaccinology, guides are offered as to appropriate vaccine recommendations
for travel to global regions together with vaccine contents in order to identify
any precautions and contraindications.
This text presents assessment and management guidelines for common medical presentations
to the travel health professional in primary-care health. Easy reference chapters,
with practical management parameters for vaccination for travellers, will confidently
guide any knowledge acquired permitting self-responsibility in vaccine-preventable
disease prevention.
Contents
Requirements For Vaccination.- Indications For Immunisation, Recommending Vaccines.- Travel Vaccines At A Glance.- General Contraindications.- Accelerated Courses In Immunisation.- Special Risk Groups.- Faqs
Authors
Marc Shaw is Professor College of Public Health, Medical and
Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Australia. A Fellow of the Royal
New Zealand College of General Practice, he was a Family Practitioner for 15
years before specialising in travel and tropical medicine and is a Fellow of
the Faculty of Travel Medicine from Glasgow, a Fellow of the Australasian College
of Tropical Medicine and a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine and Expedition
Medicine from the same College. In 2008 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society and was a recipient of the Inaugural Award for Travel Medicine from
the Australian College of Tropical Medicine. He has research interests in all
aspects of travel and geographic medicine, as well as a practical interest in
expeditions to remote regions, having served as Medical Officer with the New
Zealand Defence Forces in Bamiyan, Afghanistan and before that as Medical Officer
in The Pitcairn Islands. Currently he is Medical Director of Worldwise Travellers
Health Centres of New Zealand. Other medical interests include communication
in Medicine, the Media and the Art of Medicine. He writes poetry, creates sculpture
and can definitely tell the difference between a glass of Château d’Yquem
and a bottle of gin!.
Claire Wong is a Travel Health Specialist Nurse at Worldwise Travellers
Health Centres in Auckland, New Zealand. She has over 18 years of clinical and
academic travel medicine experience in both the UK and New Zealand. She spent
10 of those years as a Specialist Nurse at the Public Health England commissioned
National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) in London. Claire holds
a diploma in Travel Health and Medicine and an MSc in International and Travel
Health and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow.
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