Search

Crew Health Advice: Sleep Deprivation Are your crew members getting enough sleep? A recent US study into sleep found that sleep deprivation is one of the main contributory causes of…

Crew Health Advice: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and Winter Blues While the holiday season can bring about some unwanted stress, there are some scientific reasons why your mood can be affected…

Crew Health Advice: Pulmonary Tuberculosis Seafarers, by the nature of their work, are exposed to a variety of occupational hazards, including epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis. The UK P&I…

Crew Health Advice: Prostate Cancer To highlight Men's Health Awareness Month, the Club's Crew Health Team have compiled this critical advice on prostate cancer in collaboration with Red Square…

Crew Health Advice: Preventing and reducing malaria transmission Recently, UK Club Members reported cases of death and two cases of serious illness (three months in hospital each) due to malaria.…

Crew Health Advice: Positive Self-Esteem The value of a positive self-esteem? Self-esteem can heavily influence people's choices and decisions. It serves a motivational function by making it more…

Crew Health Advice: Parkinson's Disease Parkinson's disease is rarely diagnosed in active seafarers or a cause for medical repatriation. However, Parkinson's is a neurological disorder that affects…

Crew Health Advice: Panic Disorders A PDF of this advice is available to download at the bottom of the page.  Crew Health Advice What is Panic Disorder? Seafarers can experience high…

Crew Health Advice: Obesity The Crew Health team recently analysed data from 900+ crew medical examinations where multiple illnesses were highlighted. Over 200 crewmembers failed their pre-sea…

Crew Health Advice: Noise Induced Hearing Loss The UK P&I Club PEME Programme provides an enhanced medical screening service for all crew. As part of the PEME examination, crew are screened on…