Search For Health & Safety Risks
May 28, 2008
3 of 5 - Safety & Security Week
How about some hiking in Portugal? Planning on doing a scuba diving in Belize? Want to find out what's the health and safety risks are for a specific destination? Here are some web resources to check.
The World Health Organization has released, in electronic form, a great publication for travelers. It covers how may meet sudden and significant changes in humidity, temperature, altitude and microbes which can result in health issues. Poor quality health, hygiene, sanitation standards are often go hand in hand with poor medical services and limited clean water.
For the full publication click here. For just the country list click here.
The United States State Department also offers a wealth of information for those traveling overseas. If your headed out of the country this is an excellent reference. Click here.
The UK offers an interesting site with information for not only traveling but living overseas. Click here.