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Tables of Contents for Travel Medicine & Migrant Health
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editors
xiii
Contributors
xv
SECTION 1 History, surveillance, resources, travel medicine services
1
96
Historical aspects of travel medicine
3
34
Jonathan Cossar
Emerging infections and relation to travel
24
13
Dermot Kennedy
Surveillance of travel-related illness
37
22
Eric Walker
Sources of information for travel health advisers
47
8
Eric Walker
Epidemiology and travel medicine
55
4
Robin Knill-Jones
Provision of travel medicine services
59
11
Lorna Calvert
Risk assessment
70
7
Fiona Raeside
Managing risk in travel health - policies, protocols and legal aspects
77
20
Karen Howell
SECTION 2 Physiological, medical and psychological travel-related problems
97
68
Health problems associated with air travel (including motion sickness, jet lag, fear of flying and air rage)
99
8
Richard Harding
Elderly travellers, individuals with disabilities and fitness to travel
107
58
Iain McIntosh
Psychological aspects of travel and the long-term expatriate
115
27
Michael Jones
Women and child travellers
142
16
Marlene Simpson
Travellers with pre-existing health problems
158
7
Eric Walker
Lorna Calvert
SECTION 3 Travel-related risks: physical
165
50
Accidents and injuries experienced by travellers
167
34
J. Gordon Avery
Swimming and sub-aqua diving
181
10
Eleanor Wilson
The effects of altitude on health
191
10
Andrew Peacock
Health risks from the sun and solar skin damage
201
14
Colin Fleming
Rhona MacKie
Heat exhaustion and heatstroke
212
3
J. Gordon Avery
SECTION 4 Travel-related risks: sexual
215
26
Sexual risks related to travel, including HIV infection
217
24
Brain Mulhall
SECTION 5 Travel-related risks: infection (excluding malaria)
241
66
Diseases spread by food, water and soil
243
46
Philip Welsby
Diseases transmitted through the respiratory tract and skin-to-skin contact
256
8
Bibhart K. Mandall
Diseases spread by insects and animals
264
9
Fiona Raeside
Travellers' diarrhoea
273
16
Michael Farthing
Immunisation theory, practice and available vaccines
289
18
Jane Leese
SECTION 6 Malaria
307
24
Malaria: the parasite, the disease and management
309
22
Eric Walker
Prevention for travellers
317
8
Jane Chiodini
Future prospects
325
6
Peter Chiodini
SECTION 7 Regional travel
331
58
A perspective from sub-Saharan Africa
333
16
Alan Pithie
A perspective from the Indian sub-continent
349
10
Eric Walker
Santanu Chatterjee
A perspective from South and Central America
359
4
G. B. Wyatt
A perspective from South-East Asia
363
16
A. J. Hedley
A. S. M. Abdullah
Travel in cold climates
379
10
Jane Weaver
SECTION 8 Special situations
389
52
Expedition medicine
391
28
Michael Townend
Refugees, disaster relief and migration
408
11
John Howarth
Ethnic minority and immigrant travellers
419
9
Pradhib Venkatesan
Martin Dedicoat
Impact of tourism on host countries
428
13
A. J. Hedley
A. S. M. Abdullah
SECTION 9 After return
441
20
Health screening and psychological considerations in the returned traveller
443
10
Ted Lankester
Infection in the returned traveller
453
8
Christopher Ellis
SECTION 10 Education
461
10
Education in Travel Medicine
463
8
Cameron Lockie
Jeannett Martin
SECTION 11 Appendix of maps
471
8
Bilharzia
472
1
Cutaneous Ieishmaniasis
473
1
Dengue
474
1
Epidemic meningococcal infection
475
1
Japanese B encephalitis
476
1
Onchocerciasis
477
1
Tick-borne encephalitis
478
1
Index
479