title: Tropical medicine and travel medicine: medical advice for aviation medical examiners concerning flight operations in tropical areas.
abstract: Medical stress factors in the tropics include the climate itself, factors related to travel (jet lag, means of transport), insects, low standards of hygiene, infectious diseases, socio-economic problems, and psychosocial stress. This chapter from the Joint Aviation Authority Aviation Medical Regulations explores these stresses as they relate to aircrew and the aviation medical examiners who treat them.
authors.affiliation: Licensing Division, Central JAA, Hoofddorp, Netherlands. jsiedenburg/JAAHQ@JAA.NL
authors.forename: Jorg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siedenburg
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Stüben
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000517:prevention & control; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods; D014195:Travel; D014329:Tropical Climate; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D014611:Vaccination / Q000379:methods; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control