Travellers' Health

How to Stay Healthy Abroad
Herausgegeben von Dawood, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Travellers' Health offers practical advice on preventing and coping with every health problem imaginable. Authoritatively written by over 70 experts, this book is essential reading for all travellers worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 5. Aufl. 2012.
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 101mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9780199214167
• ISBN-10: 0199214166
• Artikelnr.: 35331784

Autorenporträt

Dr Richard Dawood trained in medicine at University College London, has studied at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, and practised in a variety of clinical settings at teaching hospitals in the UK and overseas before establishing the Fleet Street Clinic in 1995, which is one of the UK's leading independent centres for Travel Medicine. His specialist interests include pre-travel and post-travel care of high-risk travellers, and looking after news media professionals in war zones and hostile environments. He is a medical adviser to several international TV networks and news agencies. He has been involved in Travel Medicine for more than thirty years, has personal experience of travel in more than 100 countries around the world, and writes and broadcasts frequently on Travel Health issues.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. INTRODUCTION: STAYING HEALTHY ABROAD
* 1.1: Richard Dawood: Introduction
* 2. FOOD AND HYGIENE RELATED DISEASE RISK
* 2.1: Herbert DuPont and Charles Ericsson: Diarrhoea and intestinal
infections
* 2.2: Bertie Squire: Parasites from infected food and drink
* 2.3: Tom Solomon: Poliomyelitis
* 2.4: Arie Zuckerman and Jane Zuckerman: Viral hepatitis
* 2.5: Michael Eddleston: Poisons and contaminants in food
* 3. WATER-RELATED DISEASES
* 3.1: Hemda Garelick: Safe water
* 3.2: Paul Goodyer: Water purification devices
* 3.3: Robin Philipp and Pam Thorne: Recreational water and beaches
* 3.4: Robin Philipp: Algal blooms
* 4. DISEASES OF 'CONTACT'
* 4.1: Peter Davies and Andrea Collins: Tuberculosis
* 4.2: Louise Thwaites: Tetanus
* 4.3: Delia Bethell: Diphtheria
* 4.4: Bertie Squire: Schistosomiasis (bilharzia)
* 4.5: Andrew Pollard: Meningococcal Disease
* 4.6: John Macfarlane: Legionnaires' disease
* 4.7: Michael Brown: Worm infections from soil contact
* 4.8: Diana Lockwood: Leprosy
* 4.9: Philip Brachman: Anthrax
* 4.10: Sue Fisher Hoch: Viral hemorrhagic fevers
* 4.11: Matthew Dryden: Leptospirosis
* 4.12: John Oxford: Influenza A and B
* 5. DISEASES SPREAD BY INSECTS
* 5.1: David A Warrell: Malaria
* 5.2: Tom Solomon: Arboviruses: dengue, Japanese encephalitis, yellow
fever and others
* 5.3: Michael Brown: Filarial infections
* 5.4: David Wright: Lyme disease
* 5.5: Robert Davidson: Leishmaniasis
* 5.6: Richard Dawood: Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis)
* 5.7: Chris Scofield: Chagas disease (South American trypanosomiasis)
* 5.8: Tom Solomon: Plague
* 5.9: Nick Day: Typhus: The rickettsial infections
* 5.10: John Paul: Myiasis (maggot infestation)
* 5.11: Ian Burgess: Fleas, lice, bugs, scabies, and other creatures
* 5.12: Ian Burgess: Personal protection against insect pests
* 6. ANIMAL ATTACKS; RABIES; VENOMOUS BITES AND STINGS
* 6.1: David A Warrell: Animal attacks; rabies; venomous bites and
stings
* 7. AIR AND SEA TRAVEL
* 7.1: Anthony Batchelor: Air travel
* 7.2: Richard Dawood: Jet lag
* 7.3: Alan Benson and Rollin Stott: Motion sickness
* 7.4: Arthur L Diskin: Cruise Ship Medicine
* 8. ENVIRONMENTAL AND RECREATIONAL HAZARDS
* 8.1: Stephen Hargarten and Tifany Frazer: Accidents
* 8.2: Charlie McGrath: Personal safety and security
* 8.3: Buddah Basnyat: Altitude illness
* 8.4: Chris Johnson: Effects of climatic extremes
* 8.5: Anthony Young: Sun and the traveler
* 8.6: Roy Kennedy: Hay fever seasons worldwide
* 8.7: Nebojsa Nikolic: Yachting and sailing: 'nautical tourism'
* 8.8: John Kenafake: Swimming, diving and water sports
* 8.9: Mike Langran: Snow sports
* 9. SOME COMMON PROBLEMS
* 9.1: Francisco Vega Lopez: Skin problems
* 9.2: Andrew Dawood: Dental problems
* 9.3: Gillian Whitby: Eye problems
* 9.4: Paula Dudley: Foot care
* 9.5: Matthew Dryden: Skin and soft tissue infections
* 9.6: Richard Dawood: Respiratory and airborne problems in travellers
* 9.7: Jerker Liljestrand: Gynaecological problems
* 9.8: Michael Phelan: Psychological disorders
* 9.9: Mark Bailey: Fever and undifferentiated febrile illnesses
* 10. SEXUAL CONTRACEPTION ABROAD
* 10.1: Jerker Liljestrand: Sexually-transmitted infections
* 10.2: Andrew Freedman and Owen Seddon: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV)
* 10.3: Elphis Christopher: Contraception and travel: be safe, be
prepared
* 11. TRAVELLERS WITH SPECIAL HEALTH NEEDS
* 11.1: Jerker Liljestrand: Travel in pregnancy
* 11.2: Tony Waterston: Children abroad
* 11.3: Iain McIntosh: Elderly travellers
* 11.4: David Matthews: The traveller with diabetes
* 11.5: Camille Kotton: The immunocompromised traveller
* 11.6: Agnes Fletcher: The disabled traveller
* 11.7: Jon Dallimore: Expedition Medicine
* 11.8: Richard Dawood: Medical Tourism
* 11.9: Steve Schofield, Martin Tepper and James Campbell: Health
protection of Armed Forces personnel
* 12. LIVING AND WORKING ABROAD
* 12.1: David Snashall: Becoming an expatriate
* 12.2: Will Cave: Fitness for working abroad
* 13. PREPARING FOR TRAVEL
* 13.1: Ron Behrens: Risk and risk assessment for travellers
* 13.2: Richard Dawood: Immunization
* 13.3: Rochelle Turner: Travel insurance: the whys, whats and hows
* 13.4: Simon Butler: Travel law
* 13.5: Richard Dawood and Larry Goodyer: Medicines and medical kits
* 13.6: Michael Thomas: Blood transfusion, blood products and the
traveller
* 14. EMERGING INFECTIONS: THE FUTURE
* 14.1: David Heyman: Emerging infections: the future
* APPENDIXES
* Appendix 1: Vaccination requirements and recommendations
* Appendix 2: Resource Guide
* Appendix 3: Some hints on eating abroad under extreme conditions of
bad hygiene
* Appendix 4: Medical Kit Checklist
* Appendix 5: Post-travel health screening
* Appendix 6: Hay fever seasons worldwide
* Further reading
* Glossary
* Index