Atlas of Travel Medicine and Health or Infections of Leisure

Atlas of Travel Medicine and Health

Author: Chiodini Boyn

Written by specialists in the field of travel medicine, Atlas of Travel Medicine and Health delivers sound travel health advice in a very visual and comprehensible format. The Atlas is divided into three sections. Section One provides general advice on such topics as water, food, and personal hygiene, accidents, animal and insect bites, parasitic infection, sun and heat, casual sex, blood-borne modes of infection, and medical coverage and insurance. Section Two is disease-specific and conveys need-to-know information on malaria, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, typhoid, yellow fever, meningitis, schistosomiasis (Bilharzia infection), dengue, polio, Japanese B encephalitis, tick-borne encephalitis, rabies, and traveller's diarrhoea. Section Three presents country-specific immunisation advice, malaria advice and precautions, and a selection of other health considerations. Also included are a map and a weather chart for each country.

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Reviewer: John S. Czachor, MD, FACP, FIDSA,FSHEA (Wright State University)
Description: This guide has been written for healthcare professionals to provide individuals, prior to their travels, with information regarding general travel recommendations, disease specific information, and selected country-by-country advice.
Purpose: This book is designed to present easily comprehended travel information to help clients assimilate the complex medical issues associated with travel. The book is an effort to address the dearth of useful and understandable information that is specifically directed at travelers and provides a welcome addition to the body of travel medicine literature now available.
Audience: The atlas is targeted to all health professionals who practice travel medicine. More importantly, it provides them with a resource to teach and inform their patients with valuable travel-related tips and advice. In addition, the individual maps may provide in-hand information if they are duplicated and given to travelers. The authors are very credible lecturers in and practitioners of travel medicine.
Features: The book is divided into three sections: general travel advice, disease specific information, and country specific disease and travel advice. Numerous addresses for Web sites with travel related information are included. The country maps are color coded for malaria and have the unique feature of temperature and sunshine/rainfall graphs. Over 100 countries are detailed, but not all countries are represented. Two main problems are the U.K. bias of the information, and reminders throughout the book for practitioners to seek more up-to-date references. The malaria color coding of the maps is somewhat confusing.
Assessment: There is a glaring need for this type of information to be distributed to travelers. This book is not meant to be a shelf reference for travel medicine practitioners in the traditional sense. However, it does supply a reference of information relevant for travelers at their level of understanding. Perhaps this information may enable healthcare workers to enlighten their patients about the risks of travel and thereby ensure a safe journey.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Water, Food, and Personal Hygiene: General Advice	1
	Accidents	2
	Animal Bites, Parasitic Infection, and Other Hazards: General Advice	3
	Biting Insects and Stings: General Advice	4
	Sun and Heat: General Advice	5
	General Advice on Casual Sex and Blood-Borne Modes of Infection	6
	Medical Cover/Insurance	7
	Malaria	9
	Hepatitis A	12
	Hepatitis B	14
	Typhoid	16
	Yellow Fever	18
	Meningitis	20
	Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia infection)	22
	Dengue	24
	Polio	26
	Japanese B Encephalitis	28
	Tick-Borne Encephalitis	30
	Rabies	32
	Travellers' Diarrhoea	33

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Infections of Leisure

Author: David Schlossberg

Infections of Leisure provides a thorough yet concise examination of the infectious risks and diseases of leisure time activity. Encompassing a wide range of medical and social interests, chapters provide practical, clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of various infectious risks in the garden, at the shore, on fresh water, on camping trips, traveling abroad, and on the farm. Additional chapters include up-to-date information on foodborne illnesses, and on animal-associated infections, with particular attention given to house pets. The rising prevalence of Lyme Disease, hepatitis, and food poisoning makes this volume vitality important. Family practitioners, internists, infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, and emergency room physicians will all benefit from the indispensable and practical information presented in this unique, groundbreaking volume.