How Long to Read Fast Facts: Travel Medicine

How Long Does it Take to Read Fast Facts: Travel Medicine?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 36 minutes to read Fast Facts: Travel Medicine by Andrew J. Pollard

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Travellers depend upon their family physician and practice nurse for essential advice in planning travel and practitioners need to be able recognise an increasing array of diseases in a new, mobile population. The explosion in international tourism fuelled by fast, cheap transport has meant that the specialty of travel medicine has had to evolve rapidly. Travel medicine now extends well beyond infections in warm climates and includes exposure to new environments, new cultures, new hazards, and new medical problems including emerging and re-emerging infections. 'Fast Facts: Travel Medicine' is an invaluable practice resource which provides expert practical coverage of all aspects of health problems that may be incurred during travel abroad. It focuses on the provision of sound, personalised advice in the areas of preparation, risk- assessment, planning and personal responsibility. This fact-filled, accessible guide will see near-constant use in the primary healthcare setting. Contents: • Pre-travel health assessment • Geographical distribution of health hazards • Individuals with special considerations • Motion sickness and jet lag • Vaccines • Malaria • Other mosquito-transmitted diseases • Food- and water-borne illnesses • Other parasitic diseases • Diseases transmitted by ticks, lice, mites and fleas • Miscellaneous infectious diseases • Environmental and climatic factors • Returned travellers

How long is Fast Facts: Travel Medicine?

Fast Facts: Travel Medicine by Andrew J. Pollard is 154 pages long, and a total of 39,116 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fast Facts: Travel Medicine Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Fast Facts: Travel Medicine aloud.

What Reading Level is Fast Facts: Travel Medicine?

Fast Facts: Travel Medicine is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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