First manual on how health is affected by travel has been introduced online by the National Institute of Medical Ecogeography

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - December 14, 2000.

National Institute of Medical Ecogeography announces the launch of The Health Almanac for Travelers, http://www.healthgeography.com/.
Health Almanac for Travellers (HAT), a user-friendly online database of your health states, emotional balance, libido, etc. while you are traveling in different regions of the Earth. HAT will help you find the place for recreation useful for your health, and will forewarn of a danger.
HAT is designed
- to check how your health and your general state change during the trip
- to make a correct choice of the place for recreation
- to plan individually for a best place and time of recreation in accordance with your organism particularities.

Foundation for creating the HAT was various research works conducted by the Institute of Medical Ecogeography that studies environmental affects in different regions of the Earth on a human organism. A comparison of ecological and climatic conditions of a current residential place with conditions of a new place of residence allows determining peculiarities of a traveler health state.

HAT actual data will be necessary for
- individual choice of the best location and time for health restoring
- individual choice of place of residence
- choice of optimal places for sportsmen training
- individual forecasting of the health critical states probability during travelling
- individual computing of health-giving cruises
- determination of health stamina gained at recreation.

The data bank of territorial physiological characteristics of the largest scale has been already created - it covers the states and the largest cities. With development of science and increasing demands for information on regional conditions where we reside and recreate, more and more detailed investigations of the country territorial characteristics will be conducted. Each tellurian will soon know the conditions he or she resides in, and where it is the most useful place for him or her to reside and vacation.

For additional information on HAT website and services, visit web site at http://www.healthgeography.com.