European Public Health links
This is an evolving collection of links, most of which have pages in English. Please feel free to email us any suggestions for additional links, corrections or even new sections.
COUNTRIES
A few links to mostly english language pages from other european countries. If you notice errors or want to suggest other pages then please send them in.
AUSTRIA
University of Innsbruck School of Public HealthBELGIUM
Scientific Institute
of Public Health
This is a Belgian state research institute for public health. The site
has reports available in English, French and Dutch on Ssurveillance of
communicable and non communicable diseases, risk assessment, environment
and health.
National Institute of Statistics
CROATIA
Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Zagreb
CZECH
National Institute of Public Health
Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic
DENMARK
Danish Society of Public Health
Danish national
board of health
Health Promotion and Prevention, health services evaluation, statistics
and Denmark's public health strategy ( English Translation) are available
from this site.
Denmark National Institute of Public Health
The National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is research institute
under the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health. Functions include:
research into the health and morbidity of the Danish population; research
into the functioning of the health care system; to make reviews and consultancy
for public authorities; to participate in the education of researchers;
teaching in public health science and social medicine.
Denmark Statens Serum Institut
National institute for prevention and control of infectious diseases
and congenital disorders. Site includes searchable database of notifications
of notifiable diseases in Denmark.
Institute of Preventive
Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
Research institute. Projects include childhood obesity, alcohol, physical
activity, child health.
Syd Dansk University Institute of Public Health, Odense, Denmark.
ESTONIA
Health Protection Inspectorate, Estonia
EURASIAN COUNTRIES
FINLAND
National Institute of Public Health, Finland
FRANCE
Societe francaise de sante publique - French Society of Public Health - members include individuals and organisations.
Sante.Fr - portal for health web sites in France.
Ecole de sante publique de Nancy - School of Public Health Nancy - comprehensive links page to public health sites in french.
Ecole National de la Sante Publique Rennes - National School of Public Health, Rennes.
Haut
Comite de la sante publique
Reporting to the French minister of health, this committee produces
reports on the state of health in France and advises on public health
strategy.
Health in France: English translation of 2002 report downloadable.
GERMANY
German Coordinating Agency for Public Health
Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security
Federal
Centre for Health Education
Topics include AIDS, Nutrition and School Health
Federal Institute
for Risk Evaluation
Federal scientific body that prepares expert reports and opinions on food
safety and consumer health protection
GREECE
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology National University of Athens
WHONET Greece
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
HUNGARY
Ministry of Health,
Hungary
Site includes small number of documents in English
Hungarian Healthy Cities Network
ICELAND
Iceland Directorate of Health english language pages
IRELAND
Department of Health and Children, Ireland
National Disease Surveillance Centre, Dublin
Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Ireland
ITALY
Inter- university Experimental Centre for Health Education (CSESi)
LATVIA
"Public Health Agency" (in Latvian)
LITHUANIA
Lithuanian Public Health Association, Kaunas
Outline of health policy and public health programme (in English)
MALTA
Ministry of health, the elderly and community care (in English)
NETHERLANDS
Netherlands Public Health Federation
Umbrella group for 32 public health institutions and professional
organisations in the Netherlands
The
Health Council of the Netherlands
Advisory body to the Netherlands government on public health. Work includes
the effectiveness of breast cancer screening, prevention of obesity, the
impact of night-time light pollution on human beings and nature, or occupational
exposure to diesel fumes. Large number of reports with English abstracts
or translated entirely.
National Institute for Public
Health and the Environment, Netherlands
Public health research body. Many reports and links in English
NORWAY
Norwegian Institute
of Public Health
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is a national center for
epidemiology, infectious disease control, environmental medicine, forensic
toxicology and research on drug abuse.
POLAND
SLOVAKIA
Slovak Public Health Association
SPAIN
Sociedad Espanola de Salud Publica y Administracion Sanitaria (SESPAS) - in Spanish
SWEDEN
National Insitute of
Public Health - English pages
The National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) was established in 1992.
It is a state agency under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.
Umea International School of Public Health
SWITZERLAND
Swiss Society for Public Health
EUROPEAN UNION
Europa - Massive official web site of the European Union. Access from here by subject matter, institutions and via current news.
Eurolex
EU Law, the Official Journal
Eurostat - Health data is grouped under populations and social conditions. Reports include key statistics on health and atlas of mortality.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
European Commission Public Health Press Releases
Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General
Council of the European Union - The main decision making body of the European Union. Brings together the ministers of each member state responsible for that subject (foreign affairs, finance, social affairs, transport, agriculture, etc.). Chaired by the member state which is currently providing the 'presidency' which rotates every six months. Meeting documents, news and links to presidency.
European Council - Composed of heads of government or state of EU member states. Meets in summits to determine overall policy directions.
EU Press Office - Current news, database of press releases, links to speeches and background. See the 'Midday Express' for a useful summary of each day's EU news releases.
EU AGENCIES
European Agency
for Health and Safety at Work
EU agency based in Bilbao, Spain the agency aims to make Europe's
workplaces safer, healthier and more productive. Site contains information
on health and safety and occupational health information in all EU member
states and many publications.
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is one of the European Union's decentralised agencies. Established in 1993 and based in Lisbon, it is a key source of comprehensive information on drugs and drug addiction in Europe. Site contains reports on drug control situation in each country as well as reports on overall EU situation.
European Centre for Disease Prevention
and Control
Recently established in Stockholm.
European Medicines Evaluation Agency
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
European Food Safety Authority
EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANISATIONS
ASPHER
Association of Schools of Public Health in The European Region. ASPHER
is dedicated to strengthening the role of public health through the training
of public health professionals for both practice and research. Founded
in 1968, it has over 70 institutional members, 7 from UK.
European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) represents over 100 non-governmental
and other not-for-profit organisations working in support of health in
Europe.
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
Umbrella organisation for public health associations in Europe.
EuroHealthNet – the European Network of Health Promotion Agencies
European Public Health Law Network - a network of expertise on the use of law for the promotion and protection of public health across the European Union, as well as Croatia, Turkey, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
HEALTH TOPICS
A short collection of links by topic please feel free to suggest more content.
Communicable disease | Lifestyles, Diet, Physical Activity | Health Service systems and policy
Communicable disease
Epinorth
The EpiNorth project aims to improve communicable disease control
and communication in Northern Europe and across the border to Russia.
Key objectives of the project are:
EURO TB
EuroTB is a collaborating Centre of WHO for the surveillance of tuberculosis.
Funded partly by EU it started in 1996 with the objective to improve the
contribution of public health surveillance to tuberculosis control in
Europe and the standardisation of tuberculosis surveillance methods. It
co-ordinates the surveillance of tuberculosis (TB) in the 52 countries
of the WHO European Region. Site includes TB profiles for each country,
slides and publications.
EURO HIV
EuroHIV co-ordinates the surveillance of HIV/AIDS in the WHO European
Region (52 countries) since 1984. Based in France its mission is to understand,
improve and share European HIV/AIDS surveillance data in order to better
inform disease prevention, control and care. Its objectives include making
international comparisons, assessing trends, characterising affected populations
and predicting disease burden and evaluating surveillance methods. Surveillance
reports, slides and links to participating countries.
European Working Group for Legionella
Infection
The European Working Group for Legionella infections was formed in
1986. Members are scientists with an interest in improving knowledge and
information on the clinical and environmental aspects of legionnaires'
disease through developments in diagnosis, management and treatment of
the disease.
In 1987 the group established a surveillance scheme (known as EWGLINET from July 2002). This detects cases of legionnaires' disease in people who developed the disease as a result of travelling and staying in hotels or other types of holiday accommodation. The aims of the scheme are to rapidly identify outbreaks in order that immediate control measures for prevention of further cases can be taken and investigations into the source(s) of infection carried out. New European guidelines for control and prevention of travel associated legionnaires' disease have recently been produced and adopted by the group. The website is managed by the co-ordinating centre in London.
Eurosurveillance
Eurosurveillance is a multiformat journal that publishes authoritative,
peer-reviewed information on communicable diseases from a Europe-wide
perspective, and is evolving in response to the challenges of collaboration
across many more borders. Funded by the European Commission's Directorate-General
for Health and Consumer Protection (DG SANCO) It has an editorial team
based at both the Institut de veille sanitaire at Saint-Maurice, France,
and at the Health Protection Agency Communicable Disease Surveillance
Centre in London, England. Free subscription to newsletters and email
bulletins.
European Influenza Surveillance Scheme
EISS
EISS aims to contribute to a reduction in morbidity and mortality
due to influenza in Europe. It brings together data from 31 reference
laboratories in 25 European Countries. Data on incidence, reports etc.
European Organisation
for Rare Diseases - EURODIS
Eurordis is a non-governmental organisation, which brings together
more than 200 rare disease associations in 16 different countries, 13
of which are European Union member states. It is supported by its members,
the European Commission and by private partners.
Lifestyles, Diet, Physical Activity
Health Behaviour in School Aged Children
HBSC is a school-based survey of 11, 13 and 15 year olds with data
collected through self-completion questionnaires administered in the classroom.
It is carried out by a research network, in collaboration with WHO. The
data bank is in Bergen, Norway. Currently involves 36 countries. Site
provides references to publications, a few of which can be downloaded.
Health Service Systems and policy
The European Observatory
on Health Systems and Policies
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and promotes
evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous
analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe. The Observatory
is a partnership between the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the Governments
of Belgium, Finland, Greece, Norway, Spain and Sweden, the Veneto Region
of Italy, the European Investment Bank, the Open Society Institute, the
World Bank, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
PUBLICATIONS
Euro
Observer
Euro Observer, is the newsletter of the WHO European Observatory on Health
Care Systems. It provides information on heath care system reforms across
Europe through review articles and commentaries. It also describes the
Observatory's activities, studies and reports.
Eurohealth
Published by LSE Health and the European Health Policy Research Network
(EHPRN) It includes reports on the latest developments in health care
reforms and health policy developments around the world. It also covers
the European and international organisations and institutions, with a
particular emphasis on the European Union.
RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
Closing the Gap: Strategies for Action to tackle health inequalities in Europe
SPHERE Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe
LINKS PAGES
European Public Health Association Directory Directory of NGOs and health information links.
World wide web virtual library Public Health Section. Large collection of links to web sites in European countries.
Rollins School of Public Health Emory University
Netherlands Health Council - health technology links
OTHER LINKS
Brussels in Europe Office - Published by the administration covering the city of Brussels it provides a useful serach engine of local, regional, national and international representations with offices in Brussels.
Health
Development Agency international consultants database
The HDA European and International Programme has developed this service
to help experienced professionals in England promote themselves for public
health projects and initiatives internationally. Useful set of links and
advice. Register.
The European Commission's EU
public health portal
A single point of reference for reliable and easily accessible information
on a wide range of health-related topics for citizens, patients, health
professionals, stakeholders and policy-makers.