CDC Health Information for International Travel 2012 [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: CDC
• Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (642 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.68
• Soggetto topico: Communicable Disease Control; Travel -- Health aspects; Travel; Vaccination; Public Health; Health & Biological Sciences; Public Health - General
• Altri autori: BrunetteGary W
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Boxes, Figures, Maps, & Tables, by Topic; List of Maps; Editorial Staff; CDC Contributors; External Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 INTRODUCTION; Introduction to Travel Health & the Yellow Book; Planning for Healthy Travel: Responsibilities & Resources; Travel Epidemiology; Perspectives: The Role of the Traveler in Translocation of Disease; Perspectives: Risks Travelers Face; Perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ; 2 THE PRE-TRAVEL CONSULTATION; The Pre-Travel Consultation; General Recommendations for Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis ; Perspectives: Vaccine Recommendations of the ACIPDrug-Vaccine & Drug-Drug Interactions; Perspectives: Fear of Vaccines; Self-Treatable Conditions; Self-Treatable Conditions; Travelers' Diarrhea; Altitude Illness; Jet Lag; Motion Sickness; Respiratory Infections; Occupational Exposure to HIV; Counseling & Advice for Travelers; Food & Water Precautions; Perspectives: Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea-It's Not Only WHAT You Eat & Drink; Water Disinfection for Travelers; Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins; Protection against Mosquitoes, Ticks, & Other Insects & Arthropods; Sunburn ; Problems with Heat & ColdInjuries & Safety; Animal-Associated Hazards; Natural Disasters & Environmental Hazards; Scuba Diving; Medical Tourism; Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism; Mental Health & Travel; Travel Health Kits; Perspectives: Counterfeit Drugs; Obtaining Health Care Abroad for the Ill Traveler; Travel Health Insurance & Evacuation Insurance; 3 INFECTIOUS DISEASES RELATED TO TRAVEL; Amebiasis; Angiostrongyliasis (Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection, Neurologic Angiostrongyliasis); Anthrax; Bartonella-Associated Infections; Brucellosis; Campylobacter Enteritis; Chikungunya ; CholeraCoccidioidomycosis; Cryptosporidiosis; Cutaneous Larva Migrans; Cyclosporiasis; Cysticercosis; Dengue Fever & Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; Diphtheria; Echinococcosis; Filariasis, Lymphatic; Giardiasis; Helicobacter pylori; Helminths, Intestinal; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C; Hepatitis E; Histoplasmosis; HIV & AIDS; Human Papillomavirus; Influenza (Seasonal, Zoonotic, & Pandemic); Japanese Encephalitis; Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever); Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous; Leishmaniasis, Visceral; Leptospirosis; Lyme Disease; Malaria; Measles (Rubeola); Melioidosis ; Meningococcal DiseaseMumps; Norovirus; Onchocerciasis (River Blindness); Pertussis; Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm); Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic); Pneumococcal Disease (Streptococcus pneumoniae); Poliomyelitis; Q Fever; Rabies; Rickettsial (Spotted & Typhus Fevers) & Related Infections (Anaplasmosis & Ehrlichiosis); Rubella; Scabies (Sarcoptic Itch, Sarcoptic Acariasis); Schistosomiasis; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Perspectives: Sex Tourism; Shigellosis; Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections; Strongyloidiasis; Taeniasis; Tetanus ; Tickborne Encephalitis
• Sommario/riassunto: Health risks are dynamic and ever-changing, both at home and while traveling abroad. To stay abreast of the most up-to-date health recommendations, for decades health care professionals and travelers have relied on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's user-friendly Health Information for International Travel (commonly referred to as the The Yellow Book) as a trusted reference. Updated biennially by a team of experts, this book is the only publication for all official government recommendations for international travel. The book's features include clear and easy-to-read disease risk
• Titolo autorizzato: CDC Health Information for International Travel 2012
• ISBN: 0-19-983165-3; 0-19-983036-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791213303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II