Staying
Healthy
Useful
Links
In addition to the information contained in this site, many other
organisations throughout the world provide information on issues
relating to travel health. The following links highlight some of
these sites:
Medical
Information For Travellers
- ISTM
News Service - Travel advisories and current news items
regarding travel medicine from the International Society Of
Travel Medicine.
- World Health
Organisation - Reports and statistics on many aspects
of World Health Organisation programmes relevant to intending
travellers.
- US Centre
For Disease Control - This very comprehensive site is
the home of the Health For International Travellers Yellow
Book, and includes a graphical
travel map for health issues.
- MEDWEB:
Travel Medicine - Biomedical internet resources from
Emory University Health Sciences Centre library.
-
You've Got What - Public & Environmental Health Service
of the Department of Human Services, South Australia - helps
you understand the ways infectious diseases are spread and gives
simple, practical advice on prevention.
General Information For Travellers
- Australian
Department Of Foreign Affairs - Consular travel advisories
for many countries, including political, social and medical
issues that may impact on travellers to those countries.
- United
States Department of State - State Department Travel
Warnings Advisories Consular Information Sheets Consular Affairs
Bureau Government United States
- International
Committee Of The Red Cross - Information pertaining
to conflicts - essential reading for anyone venturing into troubled
areas.
-
Rec.Travel Library - Brian Lucas's award winning
site that covers all aspects of everywhere for anyone wanting
to do anything. That's not an overstatement since this site
provides extremely comprehensive coverage of a wide range of
issues that confront the traveller, as well as links to many
travel information sites.
- Lonely
Planet Online - Solid current travel information from
the people that made the Lonely Planet guide books such a success.
This site also has a quite detailed health
section.
- CIA
World Factbook - Excellent summary of facts and figures
for every country including population, ethnic groups, life
expectancy, recent history, and disturbances.
- Getaway
OnLine - The web site for the popular Channel 9 travel
program Getaway.
- Tourism
Offices Worldwide Directory - The TOWD is your guide
to official tourism information, an index listing only official
government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus,
and similar agencies. No travel agents, no tour operators, no
hotels.
- Rough
Guide To Travel - The online travel resource for todays
independent traveller featuring up to date content and coverage
of more than 4,000 destinations.
- Yahoo!
Travel - Destination information, net events, links,
chat and message boards.
- US
State Department Human Rights Report - The status of
internationally recognized human rights in all countries which
are members of the United Nations.
TMVC Travel Industry Supporters
- Australian
Federation Of Travel Agents - The official national
body through which the business interests of travel agents are
represented. It represents a majority of travel agents in Australia.
- travel.com.au
- The biggest travel site in Australia, with travel and vacation
information, on-line reservations for worldwide destinations,
plus travel news and advice.
- Flight
Centre - For the cost-conscious traveller, with a team
of over 900 travel consultants, working in over 300 stores worldwide.
- Peregrine
Adventures - Peregrine Adventures is an Australian-owned
adventure travel company, with 22 years experience in operating
and selling adventure holidays. Specialising in small-group
adventure travel, Peregrine offers holidays, treks, safaris,
cruises and adventures to all seven continents.
- World
Expeditions - World Expeditions has been in the Adventure
Travel business for 25 years and are pleased to offer a range
of exciting tours and expeditions to off the beaten track locations.
- Grant
and Cameron - African Safaris - African Safaris with
the Personal Touch. A true safari for the discerning traveller
in Africa should be more than just a tour. It should be the
experience of a lifetime.
Finding
Medical Care Overseas
- IAMAT
New Zealand - One of the most serious perils for international
travel is how to deal with illness or other health emergency
in a foreign country. IAMAT was established 30 years ago to
ensure that competent care is available to the traveller around
the world, even in many very remote places.
- CIWEC
Centre Kathmandu - Western-quality medical care within
Nepal for travelers and expatriates, CIWEC has developed an
international reputation for its work in defining the health
risks to travelers in Nepal.
Links
For Doctors
- Travel
Medicine Homepage - The most useful site for doctors
wishing to find links to travel medicine sites on the net is
Dr Rick Speare's site. It contains links to travel medicine
sites along with information about what each site contains and
how best to use it.
- VICNET:
Australian Health - An extensive collection of links
to health resources in Australia. VICNET is a unit of the State
Library of Victoria and one of the largest web sites in Australia.
- MedSite
- Medsite is a medical information resource search engine, and
categorizes, reviews and rates medical web sites. Their goal
is to make medical information on the internet easily accessible
to all, and they appear to have succeeded.
- The
Vaccine Page - Useful and up-to-date information about
vaccines and immunology presented in an easy to use format.
- Journal
Of Travel Medicine - Official publication of the International
Society of Travel Medicine and the Asia Pacific Travel Health
Association.
- Royal
Perth Hospital Malaria Page - Online information on
Malaria presented by the Haematology department of Royal Perth
Hospital.
- Communicable
Disease Intelligence - Online version of CDI published
by the National Centre for Disease Control Canberra.
- American
Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine - A peer-reviewed
journal published monthly by the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene.
- MediCon
- The worlds' medical conferences at your fingertips.
Please Note: We provide these links as a service to web users
and do not endorse the contents of the linked pages.
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