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Travel medicine / [e-book]

By: Contributor(s): Series: Fast factsPublisher: Oxford : Health Press, 2001Description: 1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour)ISBN:
  • 9781912776061 (PDF ebook) :
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WA 110
Online resources: Summary: Travellers depend upon their family physician and practice nurse for essential advice in planning travel and practitioners need to be able recognise an increasing array of diseases in a new, mobile population. The explosion in international tourism fuelled by fast, cheap transport has meant that the specialty of travel medicine has had to evolve rapidly. Travel medicine now extends well beyond infections in warm climates and includes exposure to new environments, new cultures, new hazards, and new medical problems including emerging and re-emerging infections. This is an invaluable practice resource which provides expert practical coverage of all aspects of health problems that may be incurred during travel abroad.
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Also issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Travellers depend upon their family physician and practice nurse for essential advice in planning travel and practitioners need to be able recognise an increasing array of diseases in a new, mobile population. The explosion in international tourism fuelled by fast, cheap transport has meant that the specialty of travel medicine has had to evolve rapidly. Travel medicine now extends well beyond infections in warm climates and includes exposure to new environments, new cultures, new hazards, and new medical problems including emerging and re-emerging infections. This is an invaluable practice resource which provides expert practical coverage of all aspects of health problems that may be incurred during travel abroad.

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