Travel Medicine and Migrant Health

by Eric Walker, Lockie, Lorna Calvert MN RGN, et al.

A practical textbook of travel medicine designed for those advising and treating intending and returned travellers.A practical and comprehensive textbook of travel medicine which will answer the day to day questions of those advising an treating travellersCovers all important aspects of the subject, from travellers' diarrhoea to refugees, disaster relief and migration, reflecting the needs to see travel medicine as a much broader subject than simply the provision of vaccines and malaria prophylaxisContains chapters specific to the special needs of particular travellers eg women, children ethnic minorities, migrants, expedition membersEditors were responsible for the establishment of the first diploma and degree courses in the subject in the UKContributions from both doctors and nurses, reflecting the fact that most patient contact in travel medicine is through nurses

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443062420
• ISBN13: 9780443062421
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.7"