Health Information by Region or Country:  Resource Links

Here are a few key sources of health information by region or country.  For immigrants or refugees new to Canada, be sure to consider not only their original country of origin but also any countries they may have passed through before arriving in Canada.

Immigrant health needs by country or region of origin

Evidence-Based Preventative Care Checklist for New Immigrants and Refugees (Canada)

• Online checklists by region and country of origin for use by primary care practitioners
• Source: Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health

Global Health Observatory Map Gallery (International)

• Key health and socioeconomic data for individual countries, and tropical diseases by region.
• Source: World Health Organization

ProMED-mail (International)

• Information about outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins affecting human health.
• Source: International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)

International traveller health needs by country

Where are you travelling? (Canada)

• Information for use by travellers
• Source: Public Health Agency of Canada

Travelers’ Health (US)

• Health risk information by country for use by clinicians with separate pages adapted for use by travelers
• Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Country Information Pages (UK)

• Disease risks by country for use by health professionals
• This site also provides information on recent disease outbreaks by region
• Source: National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)

International Travel and Health Interactive Map (International)

• Visual display of regions at risk for select infectious diseases
• Source: World Health Organization

Read more about travel-related illness and immigrant and refugee children in Caring for Kids New to Canada.

Last updated: February, 2023