Okno Group - Health care links

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Regional health care links

International organizations
- European Union (Europa: EU web site)
  - Dir General for Health & Consumer Protection
    - List of key documents on health policy
  - Dir General for Enlargement covers all policy issues related to the membership negotiations with the CEE applicant states
    - List of key documents on enlargement
  - DG External Relations: Nuclear Safety in the CEC & NIS
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  - OECD Health Care home page
  - Cooperation w/Non-members: Environmental Action Program for CEE
- World Bank
- World Health Organization -- Regional Office for Europe
  - European Public Health Information Network for Eastern Europe
Governmental sites
- US Centers for Disease Control (CDC): Office of Global Health - covers current global health work, including reports describing work in Europe and the NIS
- US National Institutes of Health: International Center - with pages on work in Europe and the NIS
- US Dept. of State: OES/Emerging Infectious Diseases Program
- USAID: Population, Health & Nutrition program
- Health Committee of the US-Russia Joint Commission on Economic & Technological Cooperation (the "Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission")
Non-governmental organizations
- American International Health Alliance - a US AID-funded organization that manages health care partnerships and other programs in the CEE and NIS countries
- Center for Civil Society Int'l: list of health and medical organizations active in the NIS by country, and international organizations active in health and medicine in the region
- Friends & Partners: Health Sciences page - list of health resources maintained by the US-Russian Friends & Partners internet project
- Center for Communications, Health and the Environment - a US non-profit

Country health-care links

Government agencies
- Armenia: Ministry of Health - may be unavailable
- Bulgaria: Ministry of Health - in Bulgarian
- Czech Ministry of Health - in Czech
  - Institute of Health Information and Statistics - in English
  - National Institute of Public Health - in English; Czech version
- Estonia: Ministry of Social Affairs - English version
- Hungary: Ministry of Health - English version
  - Information Center for Health Care - in English (Hungarian and other languages available)
  - National Institute for Health Information and Communication - mostly in Hungarian
- Moldova
  - National Center for Medical Information - English version
- Poland: Ministry of Health - in Polish
  - National Institute of Hygiene - in English
- Romania: Ministry of Health - basic information
- Russia: RF Ministry of Health - in Russian, English version not yet available
  - MedNet - "Russia's Net of Healthcare"; Russian, limited English information
- Slovakia: Ministry of Health - in Slovak; English site under construction
  - Institute of Health Information and Statistics - in Slovak
- Slovenia:
  - Institute of Public Health - English version
- Ukraine: Ministry of Health -
Academic, NGO and other web sites
- Russian medical resources links from Russian Adoption Medical Services
- Russian Public Health Association - in English and Russian

Issue-related sites (not listed above)

General
- Baltic Sea Network on Occupational Health and Safety
- European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS - also includes information on other communicable diseases, including tuberculosis
- Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS
- UN Drug Control Program
- WHO European Center for Environment and Health, Rome and Bilthoven, Netherlands divisions
- WHO-Europe: European Environment & Health Committee
- OECD Environmental Health & Safety Program

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