Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health

Part 1 Basics of travel medicine: health risks abroad, general considerations; travel industry and medical professionals; pre-travel planning; travel and tourism patterns; sources of information; travel medicine and the travel medicine clinic. Part 2 Travellers and the environment: developing regions; high altitude; sea and diving; extremes of temperature. Part 3 Infectious health risks abroad and preventive measures: travellers' diarrhoea; malaria; vaccine preventable diseases; respiratory tract infections; sexually-transmitted diseases; viral tropical infections; bacterial tropical infections; parasitic tropical infections. Part 4 Non-infectious health risks and preventive measures: psychiatric illness and stress; high-altitude sickness; accidents, bites and stings; travel-related illness; economic considerations; compliance with Travel Health Recommendations; Part 5: Special risk groups: short-term travellers; expatriates and the long-term traveller; expedition participants; infants and young children; pregnancy, nursing, contraception and travel; the aged, handicapped and infirm traveller. Part 6 Illness abroad and back home: emergency abroad, medical care and facilities and indications for and logistics of evacuation; diagnostic and management approaches in returning travellers; outbreak investigations. Part 7 The future: risk of travel in the year 2006.