Links

Public Health in Europe

http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/index_en.htm

Health-EU. Public Health Thematic Portal

http://ec.europa.eu/health/index_en.htm

EC DG SANCO - Public Health website. Information on public health issues and activities in the EU.

http://www.europa.eu.int/pol/health/index_en.htm

EU activities in the field of public health at a glance.

http://www.eupha.org/index.html

The European Public Health Association website. Information on European public health issues, major publications, projects and events.

http://www.ehma.org/home/default.asp

The European Health Management Association website. A network of health organisations in Europe.

http://www.epha.org/

European Public Health Alliance website. A network of over 100 NGOs and other non-for-profit organisation working on public health in Europe.

http://www.euro.who.int/

The WHO Regional Office for Europe website.

Examples of European Public Health Databases

http://www.who.dk/informationsources

WHO-Europe maintains several databases. The WHO-HFA database contains the data on all the indicators selected for the HFA-21 goals, for all the Member States of the WHO European Region.

OECD health database

The health database of OECD contains data on health status, health care resources, health care utilisation, health expenditures and financing, social protection, pharmaceuticals, non-medical determinants of health, and background references, for all OECD Member States.

Eurostat

Eurostat, the statistical DG of the European Union, maintains a variety of data on health and related issues, mostly under the population and social statistics, for all EU Member States and sometimes additional countries.

http://www.rivm.nl/vtv/home/Kompas

The Dutch Public Health Compass. Information on public health and health care in the Netherlands, updated every three months. In Dutch only.

http://www.rivm.nl/vtv/home/Atlas

The Dutch Public Health Atlas. Geographical information on public health and health care, updated every three months. In Dutch only.

http://www.hon.ch

A non-for-profit portal to reliable medical and health information. Provides a tool for standardisation of the reliability of medical and health information on internet.

http://www.norgeshelsa.no/norgeshelsa/index.jsp?language=en-gb

A comprehensive overview of the health status of the Norwegian population, developed by the national public health institute.

http://www.euro.who.int/HEN

The information service for public health and health care decision makers in the WHO European region.

http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a partnership of WHO Regional Office for Europe and several governments, national and international institutions.

http://www.healthpolicymonitor.org/index.jsp

The website of the international network for health policy and reform, a 20 country project initiated and sponsored by Bertelsmann Stiftung. A close collaboration with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is reflected in linking the two websites through the country information pages.

http://regis.oebig.at/regis.aspx

The Austrian regional health information service, including epidemiological and demographic data. In German only.

http://www.loegd.nrw.de/gesundheitberichterstattung/frameset.html

The regional health information system for North Rhine-Westphalia. In German only.

http://www.fnors.org/

The federation of 26 regional health observatories in France and overseas. In French only.

http://www.apho.org.uk/apho/

The Association of Public Health Observatories and their equivalents in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, website.

Some dictionaries, thesauri and encyclopaedias

http://www.hpmulti.net

The European multilingual thesaurus on health promotion in 12 languages.

http://www.bdsp.tm.fr/Glossaire/Default.asp

The European glossary of public health and health promotion in four languages: French, German, English and Spanish

http://www.cochrane.org/resources/glossary.htm

Glossary of classical epidemiology.

http://www.swintons.net/jonathan/Academic/glossary.html

Dictionary of (ecological) epidemiology.

http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/Glossary/TopPage

WHO health systems glossary

http://www.who.int/hia/about/glos/en/index.html

WHO Health Impact Assessment glossary