Your safe and indispensable companion on all journeys and expeditions
Handbook Travel Medicine and Security is a safe and indispensable companion on all journeys and expeditions. It provides simple and smart tips that can be used irrespective of whether the destination is a holiday cottage, the South Pole, a major city or a conflict area.
Facts, advice and treatments are based on international “best practice” for medicine and security during leisure, business or expeditionary travel. The handbook is designed to benefit professionals as well as the inexperienced traveller.
Rickard Ånell is a doctor specializing in orthopedics, a company doctor and a flight and diving doctor. He works as Global Medical Adviser for Saab AB, and previously worked for the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the Centre for Teaching & Research in Disaster Medicine and Traumatology, and has for many years run Adapted Medical Solutions AB, which carries out training courses and gives advice to many Swedish security companies and international companies. Rickard Ånell also has a great interest in tropical medicine have trained in Sweden, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zanzibar. He has worked as a surgeon and as an accident and emergency doctor.
Jens Berglund is the head of personnel security at Saab AB and has created the travel security system Deployment Ready for global assignments in all types of risk areas. He works with management, operational development and training within security. Jens Berglund has a background as an officer in the Swedish Armed Forces, and he is educated at the Institute for National Defence and Security Policy Studies at the Swedish Defence University. He has operated in Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Kenya, the Middle East and Thailand, including over 100 executive protection assignments in high-risk environments.
