Manual of Travel Medicine:
a pre-travel guide for health care practitioners, 2nd Edition - Nov/2004

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In this Manual Australian health professionals will find the information and advice they need to care for travellers.
 

Pre-travel health care principles are outlined. The Manual is then structured to reflect what is required in a consultation with a person who is planning to travel:

• immunisation;

• malaria prevention and management;

• prevention and management of traveller’s diarrhoea;

• specific infectious and non-infectious conditions;

• advice for travellers with special needs; and

• additional resources for travel health information.

The Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, first published the Manual in 1999. For this second edition:

• Joseph Torresi, Karin Leder, and Daniel O’Brien have joined Allen Yung and Tilman Ruff as authors;

• information and advice on avian influenza, pertussis vaccine, varicella vaccine, SARS, West Nile fever, venous thrombosis, elderly travellers, expatriates and long-term travellers, visiting friends and relatives, and immunocompromised travellers has been included;

• one new chapter (on travel health resources), chapter outlines, key readings, several new maps, and an index have been included; and

• all of the original chapters have been extensively revised.

For doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, this Manual will prove a practical, user-friendly, and authoritative desk-top reference.Bibliographic details: