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Tropical Pediatrics A Public Health Concern of International Proportions

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ISBN-10: 1619428318

ISBN-13: 9781619428317

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joav Merrick, Richard R. Roach, Donald E. Greydanus, Dilip R. Patel, Douglas N. Homnick

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Tropical medicine is a branch of medicine focusing on disorders usually found in subtropical and tropical areas of the world. Tropical pediatrics is a branch of tropical medicine focusing on children in these areas. The current process of global warming and the widespread issue of international travel are bringing these conditions to many places of the globe. This book highlights selective concepts of tropical pediatrics that are of importance to clinicians caring for children and adolescents.
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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 207
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Dr. Donald Greydanus is a Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine and is the Pediatrics Program Director at Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and his medical degree from the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey. He also completed a residency in Pediatrics from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota and a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine from the New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Medical Center in New York City. He is…    

Dilip R. Patel is a Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development and Pediatrics Program Director at Michigan State University.

Foreword
Introduction: Tropical pediatrics
Tropical Pediatrics
Recognizing Community Priorities, needs and water safety
Perspectives on immunizations
Malnutrition
The human immunodeficiency virus in pediatrics
Tropical nephrology
Malaria
Dengue virus infection
Schistosomiasis
Soil-transmitted helminths
Intestinal, lung and liver flukes
Snakebites
Chagas disease
Scorpion envenomation
Burkitt Lymphoma
Acknowledgments
About the editors
About the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, MSC/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
About the book series "Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Health"
Index