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Aviation Health Limited
17C Between Towns Road
Oxford
OX4 3LX
Tel: 01865 715 999
Fax: 01865 715 899
Web: www.aviation-health.org
Aviation Health is an independent medical research non-profit company which was created in 1996. It promotes the health and well-being of passengers world-wide. Its main objectives are research and education into the prevention of air related conditions. Since its establishment they have achieved the following:
- Increased the awareness of air related problems to the medical profession, parliament and the public.
- Pressed for the revision of the Warsaw Convention to include passenger health.
- Focused the airlines to their responsibility for the health of their passengers.
- Compiled a factual database relating to air related problems.
- Promoted methods of prevention.
- Developed a programme for educating the public on preventable airline conditions.
- Made aviation health a high profile issue.
- Supported medical research into air related deep vein thrombosis.
- Stimulated the interest of the international community, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
- Increased the importance of leg room/seat pitch.
- Selected research studies on DVT, cabin air quality, and inflight medical incidents.
The website includes information on the following topics:
- Venous thrombosis.
- Potential effects of radiation.
- Transmission of disease in flight.
- Cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.
- Medical contraindications to air travel, guide for general practitioners.
- Aviation research references.
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