The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health is just what every traveler needs: a straight-forward look at what you can do to stay healthy during your travels, from start to finish. Whether headed to the urban centers of Africa or the jungles of southeast Asia, there are precautions to be taken even before setting foot on a plane, as well as important things to remember once your travels are over.
Chris Sanford aids travelers in first finding a travel health specialist and then knowing exactly which questions to ask. The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health will also serve as a take-along guide to help deal with illnesses or symptoms that may arise while you’re on the road and as a post-trip reference for any delayed symptoms.
Aside from infectious diseases, Sanford also looks at the more common and overlooked problems travelers are likely to encounter, such as health risks in cities (pollution and motor vehicle accidents, for example), traveling if chronically ill or immuno-compromised, and high-altitude sickness. Each of the book’s chapters includes a question-and-answer section based on real questions that Dr. Sanford’s patients have asked him.
General travelers, including students going abroad to study or backpack through the developing world and travelers who want to get off the beaten path as well as explore the cities of the world, will find this an invaluable resource.
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Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction
1. Overview: Risks to International Travelers
2. Immunizations: Routine, Required, Recommended
3. Malaria
4. Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Cities
5. Diseases for Which There Are No Vaccines
6. Travelers’ Diarrhea
7. Traveling with Children
8. Traveling with Chronic Medical Problems
9. High-Altitude Medicine
10. Really, Really Nasty Diseases and Other Threats That Are Really, Really Rare, Thank God
11. The Medical Kit
12. Jet Health
13. After Your Trip: If You Feel Good, If You Do Not
14. Some Tips That, Strictly Speaking, Do Not Fall under the Rubric of Travel Health Which I Nonetheless Feel Impelled to Make
15. Resources for the International Traveler
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Об авторе
Dr. Christopher Sanford is associate professor of global health and of family medicine at the University of Washington, a family practice physician, and coordinator of the seven travel clinics within the UW system. Together with two other UW physicians, he was awarded a three-year grant from the UW Dept. of Global Health to establish a tropical medicine training program for physicians in East Africa, and has served as a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. He is the author of The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health (University of Washington Press, 2008); coauthor of The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 5th ed. (Elsevier, 2017); and coeditor of The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 4th ed. (Saunders Elsevier, 2008) and Travel and Adventure Medicine (Medical Clinics of North America, 2016).
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