Geographical Locations - Iceland

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 355
• CIA World Factbook : Iceland

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Iceland
  - WHO - Tobacco control: Country Profile: Iceland
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Iceland
• WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
• WHO Regional Office for Europe, Europe Highlights on Health, Iceland 2005

Government

• Ministry of Health and Social Security
• Directorate of Health
• Environment and Food Agency
• Icelandic Nutrition Council
• Ombudsman for Children
• Public Health Institute of Iceland
• State Social Security Institute
• Statistics Iceland

Non-Government

• Icelandic Cancer Society - "The Icelandic Cancer Society is a nation-wide, voluntary organisation with 23 active, regional divisions, some recently re-activated, and 17 cancer patients' self-help groups around the country. Seven of the regional divisions have local service centres with a part-time employee, partly supported by the society. At the same time the society, with about 90 employees, can also be regarded as an institution with multiple functions that plays an important role in the Icelandic health service."

Academic Institutions

• Educational Gateway - "The policy of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture is for Iceland to be in the forefront of nations in providing education based on the needs of the knowledge society. In recent years, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, in co-operation with the government's Project Steering Committee on the Information Society, has striven to lay the foundation for new avenues of education, by utilising information technology. The Educational Gateway is a means to that end. It is an environment for responding to the needs of students, teachers, schools, parents and others connected with education. It builds on public - private partnership in establishing up services for education. "
• Landspítali University Hospital
• University of Iceland
  - Environmental Research Institute
  - Unit for Nutrition Research
• Nordic School of Public Health

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Health Care Systems in Transition Iceland - The Health Care Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide an analytical description of a health care system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. The HiTs are a key element of the work of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Western Europe
• UNDP Human Development Reports : Iceland 2007