Travel Medicine

General Health Information

• General medical health information can be found at Medconsumer.info.

Health

• Center for Disease Control.  Traveler's Health Web site.  A large repository of traveler's health information from the U.S. Government. 

Specific Medical Issues (Also, see Traveling With Disabilities)

• Global Dialysis

"Global Dialysis has been created as a resource for dialysis patients who want to travel or holiday nationally and internationally.

Global Dialysis was launched in January 2000 by husband and wife team Russell and Valda England. Val has been on haemodialysis since 1975 with 2 transplants in the middle for 5 years and 18 months. Russ is a computer programmer.

Our aim is to collect and provide as much travel information as possible for dialysis patients."

Travel Health Information

• Travel Tips for staying healthy while traveling.  This collection of articles provides many health tips for traveling.  You may want to read tips on destinations different from where you are traveling.  Some of the advice applies to traveling anywhere.
• Travel Medicine. This Web site has everything you might need in the way of travel medical products and information.  

Travel Health Insurance

Before you purchase travel health insurance, check with your current health insurance provider to see if they provide benefits for travelers.  You may already have coverage for at least part of your travel health insurance needs.  Other kinds of travel insurance. 

U.K. Residents

• Clover Insurance Services.  "Our Single trip travel insurance provides UK residents up to the age of 65 (at the time of booking), with insurance cover when travelling on holiday. If you travel more than once a year then it may work our cheaper for you to take out an annual travel insurance policy which will cover you for every trip you make in the next 12 months."  
• Leading Edge.  "Established 1997, Leading Edge Travel Insurance Services is the sister company of one of the U.K's leading travel insurance specialists, Worldwide Travel Insurance Services Ltd. Leading Edge clients therefore benefit from Worldwide's expertise and receive the same high quality service." 
• Our Way.  "Travel Insurance or People With Medical or Physical Disadvantages and for Accompanying Family and friends.
• WorldWide Travel Insurance.  "Travel insurance for worldwide holidays. Annual, Single trip, Ski & International cover." 

U.S. Citizens

• All Aboard Benefits.  "All Aboard Benefits, formerly Benefit Concepts, was established in Texas in 1983. We are an independent broker of individual medical insurance policies, group health plans, employee benefit packages and more. Based in Dallas, the company has a large clientele of individual policy owners as well as an impressive list of corporate clients. As an independent agency, we are able to offer benefit packages from virtually all of the major carriers in the insurance industry."
• HTH Travel Insurance.  Products include: travel medical, trip protection, international student, and annual medical.

• Insure My Trip.  "We provide travel insurance policies from Access America, CSA Travel Protection, HTH Worldwide, International Medical Group, International SOS, M.H. Ross, Medex, MEDJET Assistance, MultiNational Underwriters, Specialty Risk International, Travel Guard, Travel Insured, Travelex and TravelSafe.

  • Travel Medical Policies:

    • These policies provide Medical Coverage for travel up to a year in length. Some include coverage for evacuation, flight, accidental death, limited baggage, and trip interruption.

  • Multi-Trip Medical Policies:

    • These policies provide annual Medical Coverage for multiple trips throughout the year. All policies have trip length restrictions of either 15, 30 or 70 days. Some include coverage for evacuation, flight, accidental death, limited baggage, and trip interruption.

  • Medical Evacuation Policies:

    • These policies provide protection for travelers in the event they become seriously ill or injured while traveling. They provide emergency medical evacuation to the nearest appropriate care facility or on some plans, to your hospital of choice. They also include coverage for repatriation of mortal remains.

  • Flight Accident Policies:

    • These policies are designed for travelers going on a single trip and provide coverage for Flight Accident Insurance (a form of Accidental Death Coverage while flying)."

• Overseas Health.com.  "Overseas Health.com is dedicated to providing high quality, affordable travel health insurance for individuals, families and groups who travel or live overseas and visitor health insurance for foreign nationals visiting or immigrating to the US."