AAP Textbook of Global Child Health

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Developed by more than 40 leading global child health experts, this all-new, first-of-its-kind textbook is a comprehensive reference tool that combines travel medicine, practicing medicine in other countries; and review of diseases endemic in the tropics and resource-limited areas. 

• This textbook begins by presenting foundational information to build understanding of disease, health, medicine, culture, law, and the environment. 
 
• It provides information for health care practitioners on preparing families traveling with children.  Finally, health and illness are discussed in tangible ways to guide the practice of pediatrics in resource-limited regions of the planet. 
 
• This textbook can serve health care practitioners in conjunction with other AAP publications such as: Working in International Child Health, Atlas of Pediatrics in the Tropics and Resource-Limited Settings