Essential Travel Medicine (eBook)

Jane N. Zuckerman, University College London, London, UK Gary W. Brunette, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA Peter A. Leggat, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

List of Contributors vii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Section 1: Travel medicine

1 Basic epidemiology of infectious diseases 3
Mark J. Sotir & David O. Freedman

2 Basic epidemiology of non-infectious diseases 9
Richard C. Franklin & Peter A. Leggat

3 Pre-travel health risk assessment 23
Peter A. Leggat & Jane N. Zuckerman

4 Setting up a travel clinic 35
Marc T.M. Shaw & Claire S. Wong

5 Travel medicine resources 45
Peter A. Leggat, Gary W. Brunette, Gilles Poumerol, & Jane N. Zuckerman

Section 2: Travel-related infectious diseases

6 Travelers' diarrhea 57
Charles D. Ericsson

7 Vector-borne diseases 65
Annelies Wilder-Smith

8 Yellow fever 75
Mark D. Gershman & J. Erin Staples

9 Malaria 83
Tomas Jelinek

10 Respiratory disease 95
Regina LaRocque & Edward T. Ryan

11 Sexually transmitted infections 103
Alberto Matteelli, Anna Cristina C. Carvalho, & Patricia Schlagenhauf

12 Tropical skin infections 115
Francisco Vega-López & Sara Ritchie

13 Rabies 121
Mary J. Warrell

14 Vaccine-preventable diseases 131
Joseph Torresi, Abinash Virk & Jane N Zuckerman

Section 3: Travelers with underlying medical problems and special needs

15 Women's health and travel 167
I. Dale Carroll

16 Traveling with children 173
Karl Neumann, Andrea P. Summer, & Philip R. Fischer

17 Travelers with underlying medical conditions 187
Anne E. McCarthy & Kathryn N. Suh

18 The older traveler and traveling with disability 199
Kathryn N. Suh & Anne E. McCarthy

19 Visiting friends and relatives 209
Karin Leder & Sarah L. McGuinness

20 Migrants, refugees, and travel medicine 215
Louis Loutan

21 Study-abroad programs: student health and safety issues 221
Gary Rhodes & Gary W. Brunette

22 Humanitarian aid workers, disaster relief workers, and missionaries 227
Brian D. Gushulak & Douglas W. MacPherson

23 Long-term travelers 235
Claire Davies & Ted Lankester

Section 4: Environmental travel health risks

24 Aviation and travel medicine 243
Michael Bagshaw, Ian C. Cheng & Robert Bor

25 Expedition and wilderness medicine 257
Sean T. Hudson, Will Smith, David R. Shlim, Caroline J. Knox & Karen J. Marienau

26 Venomous poisonous animals and toxins 279
Mark A. Read

27 Cruise ships and travel medicine 285
Sally S.J. Bell & Eilif Dahl

28 Mass gatherings and travel medicine 293
Joanna Gaines & Gary W. Brunette

29 Emergency care whilst abroad 301
Peter A. Leggat & Marc T.M. Shaw

Section 5: Post-travel medicine

30 The returning traveler 313
Tamar Lachish, Alfons Van Gompel & Eli Schwartz

Index 327