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CDC Yellow Book 2020: Health Information for International Travel
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Edition:
- 2020
- Author:
- Brunette, Gary W.; Nemhauser, Jeffrey B.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-006597-3
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 100
- Doody Core Title Score:
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- 2.2 (Advanced Practice)
- 2.87 (Infectious Disease)
- 2.9 (General Medicine)
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Description
The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad.
This 2020 edition includes:
· Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps
· Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis
· Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea
· Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations
· Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings
· Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs
· Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations
· Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance
· Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries
· Recommendations for traveling with infants and children
· Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers
· Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees
Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field - and an ever-changing world.
This 2020 edition includes:
· Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps
· Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis
· Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea
· Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations
· Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings
· Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs
· Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations
· Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance
· Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries
· Recommendations for traveling with infants and children
· Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers
· Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees
Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field - and an ever-changing world.
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Brunette, Gary W.; Nemhauser, Jeffrey B.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-006597-3
- Specialty:
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- Infectious Diseases
- Internal Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 0
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 100
- Doody Core Title Score:
-
- 2.2 (Advanced Practice)
- 2.87 (Infectious Disease)
- 2.9 (General Medicine)
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