Geographical Locations - France

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 350
• CIA World Factbook : France

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - France
  - WHO - Tobacco control: country profile: France
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – France
• International Agency for Research on Cancer - The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization. IARC's mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer control. The organisation is located in Lyon, France.

Government

• Haut Comité de la santé publique - The High Commission for Public Health was established in 1991 with the aim of providing advice and assisting decision making within the Department of Health in order to improve community health in France.
• Ministère de l'Emploi et la Solidarité
  Portail www.sante.fr - A meta-site offering access to public health organisations and institutes

Non-Government

• AdmiNet-France - Health & Welfare
• Société française de santé publique
• Sispo - Syndicats des Internes de Santé Publique de l'Ouest
• MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders

Academic Institutions

• Institut de Recherche d'Etude et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé -" IRDES's primary mission is to provide high quality research and information for those who interested in the future of health care systems. IRDES's multidisciplinary team monitors and analyses trends in the behaviour of consumers and health care professionals from a medical, economic, geographic and sociological perspective. In addition, IRDES provides access to health information for general public through its documentation center. "
• École de Santé Publique de Nancy
• École Nationale de la Santé Publique
• Institut de recherche pour le développement - The role of the IRD is to perform research and manage scientific programmes centred on the relationship between man and his environment in the tropics.
• EpiWeb - Epi Web : le site du Service d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique du Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Lille.

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Psychosocial resources and social health inequalities in France: Exploratory findings from a general population survey
  “We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital controlling for standard sociodemographic factors (occupation, income, education, age and gender). The survey is unique for two reasons: First, we use a variety of measures to describe self-perceived social capital (trust and civic engagement, social support, sense of control, and self-esteem). Second, we can link these measures of social capital to a wealth of descriptors of health status and behaviours. We find empirical support for the link between the subjective perception of social capital and health. Sense of control at work is the most important determinant of health status. Other important ones are civic engagement and social support. To a lesser extent, sense of being lower in the social hierarchy is associated with poorer health status. On the contrary, relative deprivation does not affect health in our survey. Since access to social capital is not equally distributed in the population, these findings suggest that psychosocial factors can explain a substantial part of social inequalities in health in France.” (au)

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Western Europe
• EpiConcept - Systèmes d'Information en Santé Publique (in French)
• Institut Pasteur - Institut Pasteur is a non-profit private foundation which contributes to the prevention and treatment of disease, primarily infectious diseases, through research, education, and public health activities.