Health Information by Region or Country: Resources

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.

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 (Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health)

International traveller health needs by country

• Travel advice and advisories by destination (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Health risk information by country for use by clinicians, with separate pages adapted for use by travelers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Disease risks by country for use by health professionals. This site also provides information on recent disease outbreaks by region (National Travel Health Network and Centre)
• Disease Outbreak News (World Health Organization)

World Health Organization

• Key health and socioeconomic data for individual countries, and information about neglected tropical diseases (World Health Organization)

ProMED Weekly Pulse

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

Read more about travel-related illness and immigrant and refugee children.