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Andrew Jamieson, Stephen Toovey, Malaria: A Traveller’s Guide, Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 5, 1 September 2008, Pages 387–388, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00248.x
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The reinforcement of travel health advice with written health information has become an integral part of travel medicine practice, and Malaria: A Traveller’s Guide is a major step forward in addressing this need with respect to this potentially dangerous tropical disease. 1 This is a completely revised and updated successor to Martine Maurel’s A Layman’s Guide to Malaria, originally published in 1994 and revised in 2001. 2 The book’s concise writing style makes it easy to read. It is well researched as well as consistent and systematic in its presentation. Visual impact could have been heightened by the incorporation of more illustrations and photographs; however, this book was clearly intended to be a lower cost publication, affordable to the appropriate target groups in the community, including travelers.
The book is presented as an A5 paperback book. The cover of Malaria: A Traveller’s Guide will attract the attention of the reader and depicts the general distribution of malaria in the African continent. However, the book has generalizability beyond Africa, and the authors may consider a more global design for the next edition. On the back cover, there is a summary of the essential features. Malaria: A Traveller’s Guide gives the layman a good appreciation of the disease and its vector, as well giving coverage to issues not often covered in other lay publications of this nature, such as the history of malaria. The “How to use this book” guide indicates that “the book is not intended to be read from cover to cover” but that the book will be used as a reference to clarify travel health advice or assist in the management of issues surrounding, which may arise in the field.
