11/29/2017

How Travel Affects Health

More research must be done to uncover the negative effects of too much travel

Does being a road warrior mean you’ll be fighting a lot with your scale? Or, perhaps, fighting a cold on your way to the next meeting?

It turns out that health problems are a fact of life when it comes to work-related travel, already something that people have a tendency to either love or hate.

That said, the issue is one that has seen little in the way of research. According to a recent piece in The New York Times, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) report seeing health-related issues from high levels of travel, but lack much in the way of hard findings to understand how serious the problem is.

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.