Geographical Locations - Mauritania

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 13,167
• CIA World Factbook : Mauritania

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Mauritania
  - WHO - Tobacco control: Country Profile - Mauritania
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Mauritania
  - WHO – Malaria Country Profile – Mauritania
• PNUD en Mauritania

Government

Non-Government

• MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières in Mauritania

Academic Institutions

National Policy and Related Documents

• Mauritania: Hygiene Code, and Water and Sanitation Policy
  Covers such issues as: I. General sanitary measures; II. Distribution of water; Sanitation level; and IV. Food products.

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Cost recovery in Mauritania: initial lessons
  Cost recovery was introduced in Mauritania in 1993. Analysis of the Mauritanian experience provides a number of key points to the discussion surrounding the contribution of user fees to health care systems. Initial results appear to be largely positive regarding the improvement of the quality of health care and the overall level of utilization of basic health establishments. They suggest that users are globally willing to pay when the quality of health care improves, and that, contrary to a frequently voiced concern, EPI activities have increased. Several elements tend to show that cost recovery accompanied by a fair supply of essential drugs and by a better motivated staff has contributed to improve the efficiency of the health system. But a coherent price structure is needed to guide patients more efficiently to the different levels of the health pyramid. It is therefore vital that user fees are extended, as the government intends, to the second and third levels of the health system. The analysis conducted here also suggests that cost recovery has probably had no major negative effects as far as equity is concerned, although further investigation is necessary before a more precise judgement can be made. [author abstract] [Health Policy and Planning; 15(1): 66–75]

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : West Africa
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Mauritania
• Mauritania: UNAIDS/WHO Epidemiological Fact Sheet - 2004 Update