Important Resources
Introduction
- Travel Health Online
- Health information categorized by type of illness, and by destination. Also a list of travel medicine providers.
- Travelers' Health
- US Centers for Disease Control presents disease outbreak alerts, reference material, destination updates, cruise ship inspection scores, recommended vaccinations, and information for family and special needs travel.
- Aviation Health Institute - A charity providing information and funding research into the health issues faced by airline passengers.
- The Bathroom Diaries - A growing list of free public toilets around the world. Readers are invited to submit restrooms to the site. Includes an essay section.
- BBC Travel Health - The Travel Health web site is part of the BBC Health site offering information, advice and help on areas concerning global travel.
- Deployment Health Clinical Center - US Military Web resource providing information and assistance to military personnel post-deployment.
- Flighthealth.org - Information about preventing flight health problems such as DVT, flight stress, jet lag and cosmic radiation.
- Health Advice for Travelers - Health advice for travelers from the UK Department of Health. Broad interest to anyone doing any kind of international traveling to areas with infectious disease outbreaks.
- Healthy Travel To Distant Lands - Provides disease information specific to international regions. Also travel tips, vaccination information, dealing with jet lag and traveler's diarrhea.
- The Healthy Traveler - Redbook's interactive traveler's guide to staying healthy. Key features include a personalized health report and an archive of health related phrases spoken in several languages.
- International Medicine Center - A Houston, Texas-based provider of travel medicine services to corporations and individuals. Product and service details, news, and contact information.
- International Travel and Health - Vaccination requirements and health advice from WHO.
- International Travel Information - Preparation and understanding of current health risks for the area of your travels from bestofhealth.com.
- MD Travel Health - Health risks and services in many countries, infectious diseases and suggested immunizations, illness prevention, and special needs travelers.
- MedlinePlus: Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infectious Diseases - Prevention measures and a regional list of specific diseases.
- MedlinePlus: Traveler's Health - Directory of factsheets, news releases, and articles.
- Oxygen to Go - Portable oxygen for travelers dependent on supplemental oxygen.
- Sara's Wish Foundation - International travel safety foundation, established in wake of a Semester at Sea accident, provides travel tips and safety guidelines.
- Total Travel Clinic - Travel vaccinations and medical travel advice.
- Travel Doctor - Provides travel medicine and vaccination services through Australia, New Zealand and SE Asian clinics. Travel health reports available for many destinations.
- Travel Essentials New Zealand - Health reports for over 150 countries; recommended immunizations and vaccinations, traveler's health advice.
- Travel Health Help - Explains how to avoid diseases using mosquito nets and discusses travel health issues like malaria and the West Nile virus.
- Travel Healthcare - Provides international health advice and travel medicine and vaccination services to those intending to travel overseas.
- Travel Medicine of Long Island - Pre-travel information based on specific medical condition and planned destinations.
- Traveldoctor - Health advice regarding all travel destinations and durations with a focus on vaccines for tropical diseases.
- TravelHealth UK - Practical advice on many topics, including preventing accidents, stress, insurance, family holidays, mature and disabled travelers, sexual health, and animal bites.
- Traveling Well - Special reports available cover topics such as traveling in Australia, IBD, asthma, Q fever, Peru, and business travel. Also sales of a book on travel health by Dr Deborah Mills.
- University of Maryland Health Tips for Travelers - Vaccine requirements, health conditions, and information on infectious disease outbreaks in foreign countries.
- Vanderbilt International Travel Clinic - Provides before and after travel health information as well as disease prevention, medication instructions and a section on immunizations.
- WHO International Travel and Health - World Health Organization's biannual publication on international travel and health
- The World Traveler - Provides information on international travel such as travel clinic locator, disease vaccine information for hepatitis A and B and others. Also links to CDC travel updates. Provided by GlaxoSmithKline.