Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine

Contributor list, vii
 
Preface, xii
 
Section I Travel medicine
 
1 Trends in travel, 3
Thomas L. Treadwell
 
2 Tourism, aviation and the impact on travel medicine, 9
Anne Graham
 
3 Epidemiology of health risks and travel, 19
Hans D. Nothdurft and Eric Caumes
 
4 Fitness to travel, 27
Dominique Tessier
 
5 Management of a travel clinic, 37
Abinash Virk and Elaine C. Jong
 
Section II Infectious diseases and travel
 
6 Epidemiology and surveillance of travel-related diseases, 47
Tomas Jelinek
 
7 Virus infections in travellers, 55
Arie J. Zuckerman
 
8 Bacterial infections in travellers, 99
Ann L.N. Chapman and Christopher J. Ellis
 
9 Vector-borne parasitic diseases, 112
Emma C. Wall and Peter L. Chiodini
 
10 Malaria and travellers, 126
Malaria, 126
David J. Bell and David G. Lalloo
 
Malaria chemoprophylaxis, 133
Patricia Schlagenhauf, Catherine Jeppesen, Laura K. Erdman, Melanie Newport, and Kevin C. Kain
 
The strategy of standby emergency self-treatment, 143
Patricia Schlagenhauf
 
11 Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, 146
Francisco G. Santos O'Connor
 
Section III Prevention and management of travel-related diseases
 
12 Skin tropical infections and dermatology in travellers, 167
Francisco Vega-López and Sara Ritchie
 
13 Travellers' diarrhoea, 197
Charles D. Ericsson
 
14 Vaccine-preventable disease, 209
Jay Halbert, Phyllis Kozarsky, Jane Chiodini, Nicholas Zwar, Gary Brunette and Jane N. Zuckerman
 
15 Returned travellers, 260
Nicholas J. Beeching, Tom E. Fletcher and Limin Wijaya
 
Section IV Hazards of air and sea travel
 
16 Aviation medicine, 289
Michael Bagshaw
 
17 Aviation psychology, 315
Robert Bor, Carina Eriksen, Margaret Oakes and Philip Baum
 
18 Expedition and extreme environmental medicine, 328
Sean Hudson, Andrew Luks, Piers Carter,

Jane Zuckerman, Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference, Research and Training in Travel Medicine, University College London Medical School, University College London

Having reviewed the first edition in 2001, I welcome theopportunity to review this new one. The format is similar with thecontent delivered in six sections, but with more chapters in eachand information expanded to include new developments and advancesin the field. Expert contributors now number an impressive 80,lending a truly international perspective to the content. Travel tointernational sporting events and a favourite of mine - spacetourism - are welcome and timely additions.

Although travel abroad for healthcare is not new, the globaleconomic downturn has created a boom in so-called health tourism.The discussion on the reasons, benefits and pitfalls is wellcovered including the ethical perspective and dilemmaspractitioners may face- with case studies to give food forthought.

In the preface, the editor asks: "Where have we been,where are we now and where are we going?" - a good indicationof what we can expect to find in the book. The majority of peoplewho travel are 'well' and the art of practising travelmedicine lies mainly in keeping them that way.

However, it is becoming more complex for travel health advisersas increasingly those with pre-existing medical conditions aretravelling to destinations which may pose a risk to their conditionor where the lack of healthcare resources put them at risk if amedical problem arises and they need care. The management of thesehigh risk travellers is covered in Chapter 27 and includes bothgeneral and disease specific advice.

Good emphasis is given to the fact that there is no age limitfor travelling and no one size fits all scenarios. Individualsdeserve the best advice for their trip and the list of additionalresources for specific reference is most useful. Once again casehistories throughout the text helpto illuminate the subjects.

Chapter Six looks at the epidemiology and surveillance oftravel-related disease and emphasises the benefits of internationalcollaboration in detecting infectious diseases and