For the traveler who aims to remain healthy and active while in the Yucatan Peninsula, this guide offers an in-depth directory of health care and recreation facilities in 10 of the region's most popular destinations: Akumal, Cancun, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Merida, Playa del Carmen, Progreso, Puerto Aventuras, Puerto Morelos, and Tulum. Pre-travel advice includes recommendations on traveller's insurance and immunisations. A directory of physicians, hospitals, and hyperbaric chambers covers available services and specialities, English-speaking administrative and medical liaisons, a rating of care, and a detailed description of each facility, as well as contact information, hours, charges, specialities, and descriptions of experience and certification for each physician. Detailed city maps, emergency information, a pharmaceutical guide, and translations of common Spanish medical terms and phrases accompany the directory.

Recreational safety while travelling is also addressed with an overview of diving medicine, open water and cenote diving safety, a short list of the region's best diving schools, and reviews of dive centres, dive sites, yoga schools, gyms, hiking, biking, and kayak trips. Recommendations and descriptions of healthy restaurants, spas and temazcal (Mayan vapour bath) centres complete the healthful traveller's overview of the Yucatan.