{"id":2596,"date":"2013-01-07T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2013-02-16T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T16:23:40","slug":"business-travelers-want-better-local-healthcare-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/business-travelers-want-better-local-healthcare-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Business travelers want better local healthcare information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60% of business travelers visit \u201chigh risk\u201d destinations each year, according to a survey from travel, medical and security assistance firm International SOS. 16% travel to high risk destinations five or more times in a single year writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expathealth.org\">expathealth.org<!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By conducting the survey the company was able to identify the information travelers wanted most from their employers and medical care providers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Specific city and local-level information on the quality of medical services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Disease risks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vaccination advice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Medication Availability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The survey sample consisted of 4,746 respondents working in various industries, including technology, manufacturing, oil\/gas\/mining, financial services and telecommunication.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Reproduced by ALC Health with kind permission of expathealth.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ALC-World-TYPE2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2601\" title=\"ALC-World-TYPE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ALC-World-TYPE2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ALC Health&#8217;s online service ALC World provides policyholders with FREE access to a comprehensive on-line resource library which brings together the very latest information on medical providers, healthcare facilities, local healthcare and business travel information updates from across more than 180 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this extensive online service, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\">www.alchealth.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60% of business travelers visit \u201chigh risk\u201d destinations each year, according to a survey from travel, medical and security assistance firm International SOS. 16% travel to high risk destinations five or more times in a single year writes expathealth.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alc-health-news","category-alc-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}