Travel Medicine

• Section 1: Practice of Travel Medicine1. Introduction to Travel Medicine?2. Epidemiology: Morbidity and Mortality in Travelers3. Starting, Organizing and Marketing a Travel Clinic4. Pre-travel Consultation Section 2: The Pre-Travel Consultation5. Water Disinfection for International Travelers6. Insect Protection7. Pre-travel Considerations for Non-Vaccine-Preventable Travel Infections 8. Travel Medicine Kits Section 3: Immunization9. Principles of Immunization10. Routine Adult Vaccines 11. Routine Travel Vaccines: Hepatitis A and B, Typhoid 12. Recommended/Required Travel Vaccines13. Pediatric Travel VaccinationsSection 4: Malaria14. Malaria: Epidemiology and Risk to the Traveler 15. Malaria Chemoprophylaxis16. Self-Diagnosis and Self-Treatment of Malaria by the Traveler17. Approach to Patient with MalariaSection 5: Travelers' Diarrhea18. Epidemiology of Travelers' Diarrhea19. Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea 20. Clinical Presentation and Management of Travelers' Diarrhea21. Persistent Gastrointestinal Symptoms in the Ill-Returning TravelerSection 6: Travelers with Special Needs22. The Pregnant and Breastfeeding Traveler 23. The Pediatric and Adolescent Traveler 24. The Older Traveler 25. The Physically Challenged Traveller 26. The Traveler with Pre-Existing Disease27. The Immunocompromised Traveller28. The Traveler with HIV29. The Business Traveler 30. The VIP Traveler: Mission-Oriented Travel Medicine 31. Health Aspects of International Adoption32. Visiting Friends and RelativesSection 7: Travelers with Special Itineraries33. Expatriates: Corporate, Missionary and Volunteer34. The Migrant Traveler35. Humanitarian Aid Workers 36. The Deployed Military: Medical Readiness and Travel-Related Health Issues37. Expedition Medicine 38. Ecotourism 39. Medical Tourism 40. Cruise Ship Travel41. Mass GatheringsSection 8: Environmental Aspects of Travel Medicine42. High-Altitude Medicine43. Diving Medicine 44. Extremes of Temperature and Hydration 45. Jet Lag 46. Motion Sickness47. The Aircraft Cabin Environment Section 9: Health Problems While Traveling48. Bites, Stings, and Envenoming Injuries 49. Seafood Poisining50. Injuries and Injury Prevention 51. Mental Health Issues of Travelers52. Travelers' Thrombosis53. Healthcare Abroad54. Personal Security and Crime AvoidanceSection 10: Post-Travel55. Post-travel Screening 56. Fever in Returned Travelers57. Skin Diseases 58. Eosinophilia59. Respiratory InfectionsAppendixSources of Travel Medicine Information

"The chapters are full of excellent tables clearly delineating important elements, including many algorithms describing the approach to specific problems."-Winnie W Ooi, MD, MPH, DMD (Harvard Medical School) Doody's Score: 91-4 Stars!