Travellers' Health: How to Stay Healthy Abroad

by Richard Dawood (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $4.34

  This standard source of health information is designed for travellers who wish to make informed decisions about their own health abroad. The text explains how hazards may arise not only from diseases encountered, but also from other factors such as an unsafe water supply, inadequate hygiene and sanitation controls, adverse climates and high altitude sickness. The text explains how to deal with these problems when they occur. This third edition has been revised and expanded to include new information on AIDS, blood transfusions abroad, personal security and safety, Lyme disease, business travel, jet lag and travel for the disabled.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  International travel now takes place on an unprecedented scale, both for business and pleasure. With exotic places ever more accessible to everyone, it is increasingly important for travellers to be informed about the health problems they may encounter abroad. Travellers' Health: How to Stay Healthy Abroad provides indispensable advice for all those planning and undertaking journeys anywhere in the world. This fourth edition is a complete revision and update of this best-selling, comprehensive guide for the educated traveller. New malaria drugs, the latest vaccine information and advice, jet lag, deep vein thrombosis, and even landmines: this book covers every important issue in travel medicine, with the emphasis firmly on self-help and prevention. Travellers' Health is the leading guide to health problems abroad, and is widely used by doctors, nurses, and above all, by travellers themselves. This new edition brings together state-of-the-art background information and specialist advice from more than 80 leading experts. Travellers' Health is indeed the standard source for all travellers.