Staying Healthy When You Travel: Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More - Couverture souple

Wilson-Howarth, Dr. Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1620083787 ISBN 13 : 9781620083789

Editeur : Companion House, 2023

Synopsis

In this authoritative but accessible guide, Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth shares her extensive knowledge of travelling and practising medicine in far-flung corners of the world. Offering invaluable advice for travellers of all ages, Dr Jane explains how best to prepare for your trip and what to do if you need first aid or medical attention whilst away.

Do you know how to self-treat the commonest of traveller ailments? And more importantly, do you know how to recognise genuinely serious symptoms or how to manage a medical emergency when help may be hours away? Grounded in lived experience, Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth advises on the fundamentals of first aid and how to improvise until medical help can be reached in this accessible and comprehensive travel guide. The only book you'll need to prepare for - and enjoy - the trip of a lifetime!

• The must-have guide to travel health written by a renowned expert in the field.

• Previously published as The Essential Guide to Travel Health and Bugs, Bites & Bowels, this new edition has been revised and updated to reflect current guidelines on international travel post-pandemic.

• Includes evidence-based advice on how to best prepare for your trip with immunisations and travel insurance; how to protect yourself from insects and worms, what to pack in your first-aid kit and how to manage illness, accidents and emergencies until medical help can be accessed.

• Illustrated with maps and tables that present information in an accessible format.

• Features fascinating case histories detailing real-life experiences of travelling overseas.

<span class="a-text-italic">"For decades, Jane has been helping me—and the many thousands of other travelers who read her every word—stay well. She's a brilliant doctor who calibrates the many hazards that stand between you and a safe return home, yet she is also a traveler who understands the unparalleled rewards of a journey beyond your comfort zone and into the unknown. I am thrilled that her wisdom is now so easily accessible."</span><br /><span class="a-text-bold">—Simon Calder, broadcaster, author, and travel correspondent for </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">The Independent</span>

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Wilson-Howarth is a qualified parasitologist and doctor of medicine. She works as a GP and teaches medical students, backpackers and Engineers without Borders about health. As a balance to clinical work she writes life-affirming prose with exotic themes. Jane has three travel health guides in print ('How to Shit Around the World is an Amazon best-seller in two categories) as well as two memoirs, one set in Madagascar, the other in Nepal. She continues to write extensively on travel and health including on occasion for The Independent newspapers, The Guardian and other key national and international publications. She has written health features for Wanderlust magazine since issue one - that is 176 so far - and has contributed health chapters to innumerable Bradt travel guides.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Companion House
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1620083787
• ISBN 13: 9781620083789
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible