OBJECTIVES Preliminary investigations of whether 10,884 staff and consultants of the World Bank experience disease due to work related travel. Medical insurance claims filed by 4738 travellers during 1993 were compared with claims of non-travellers. METHODS Specific diagnoses obtained from claims were analysed overall (one or more v no missions) and by frequency of international mission (1, 2...

Interest in tropical medicine began several hundred years ago, when Europeans, primarily, traveled to Africa, Asia, and Latin America in search of land, adventure, and riches. They often returned from their travels with tropical diseases. The diagnosis and treatment of these diseases became an important part of medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Eventually, interest expanded from treat...

Values of travel time savings are often used in cost-benefit analysis of transport projects and policies, and also to compute generalised travel costs. There has been considerable debate as to whether different research methods (e.g. stated versus revealed preference) will lead to different values of travel time savings, and which segmentations (e.g. by income or mode) are most important to cap...

OBJECTIVES Spouses and staff of the World Bank Group (WBG) were questioned about the impact of international business travel on families and travellers. Dependent variables were self reported stress, concern about the health of the traveller, and negative impact on the family. We hypothesised that several travel factors (independent variables) would be associated with these impacts. These trave...

New public threats that can rapidly cross borders are continuing to challenge global health securityand will require unprecedented levels of co-operation. At the international level, the response to this challenge led to the approval of revised International Health Regulations (IHR). This unanimously approved document outlines how countries are to prepare for and respond to public health emerge...