This award-winning textbook is a comprehensive reference that combines travel
medicine, practicing medicine in other countries; and review of diseases endemic
in the tropics and resource-limited areas. Contents include: Section
1Understanding Principles of Global Child Health :The Reality of Child
Mortality; Poverty, Politics, War, and Health; Medical Anthropology; Cultural
Sensitivity, Awareness, and Competency in Pediatric Practice; International Law
and Health; Maltreatment and Advocacy; Environmental Hazards; Medical Work in
Resource-Limited Countries; Disaster Relief. Section 2 Caring for Pediatric
Travelers and Immigrants: Travel Clinics; Pre-travel Care; Adolescent Travelers
Without Parents; Immunization for Travelers; Traveler's Diarrhea; Injury
Prevention; Insect Bite Prevention; The Ill-Returned Traveler; International
Adoption; Care of Immigrants. Section 3 Practicing Pediatrics