Geographical Locations - Mongolia

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 380
• CIA World Factbook - Mongolia

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Mongolia
  - WHO - Tobacco control: Country Profile: Mongolia
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Mongolia
• WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) in Manila (Philippines)
• WHO in Mongolia
• Asian Development Bank
  - Mongolia, Health Sector Development Program
• United Nations in Mongolia - access to UN agencies' country activities
• STEP Mongolia - "A WHO/ILO STEP Partnership in the field of Social Economy Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty"

Government

• Ministry of External Relations
• National Center Against Violence
  "The National Center Against Violence is the first Government Organization in Mongolia to implement project against violence directed at women and children. It began its activities on 15th June 1995."
• Parliament of Mongolia

Non-Government

• Alpha Communities
  "To help poor and disadvantaged children and their families through education, relief and community development. We focus on holistic education and training for the poorest of the poor in Mongolia and China. Our goal is to break the cycle of poverty in which so many of Asia's families and children find themselves, enabling them to truly fulfill their desires to live as worthwhile members of their communities. We do this in various ways: Relief and Development; Education and Training; Community Health; Foster Homes"
• Liberal Women's Brain Pool
  "Contribute to the sustainable development of the country where women's knowledge and skills are fully and equally used in the formation of the efficient political, social and economic structure"
• Mongolian Children's Cultural Foundation
• Soros Foundation
  Mongolia Resource Page - including a page on Public Health in Central Eurasia
• Women’s Information and Research Centre (WIRC)
  "Conducted the gender-sensitive survey entitled "The Economic Status of Mongolian Women in the Transition Period" funded by the Small Activities Scheme (SAS) project of AusAID"
• Women for Social Progress Movement
  "An advocacy, oversight and public education organization concerned with the issues of democratic governance and gender equity. WSP is a non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit voluntary organization founded in 1992"

Academic Institutions

• Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle
  The Centre for Social Anthropology and Culture is a national research centre under the aegis of the Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific Research. Its primary mission is to undertake fundamental and applied research in Social Anthropology and Culture in connection with the needs for the national development. Site is in French.

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Obesity among Mongolian Adults from Urban and Rural Areas
  Shifts in lifestyles and eating patterns have led to an increasing prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases in the adult population in Mongolia. This article reports the prevalence of obesity, abdominal obesity and body fat among 408 Mongolian adults aged 25 years and above. The subjects included 61.2% from urban areas and 38.8% from rural areas, reflective of the 60: 40 urban rural ratio in the general population. Anthropometric measurements were taken according to standard methods. Classification of overweight/obesity was based on body mass index of WHO while abdominal obesity was based on WPRO for Asians. Men made up 47.8% (200) and women 52.2% (218) of the sample. The mean age of the subjects was 46.7±12.7 years. About one-third (32.8%) of the subjects were overweight and 10.5% obese. A higher proportion of women (13.3%) than men were obese (7.5%). The age groups of 35-54 years in men and 55-64 years in women showed the highest prevalence of overweight. Prevalence of abdominal obesity was found in 46.5% of the men and in 65.1% of the women. Women aged 55-64 years had the highest proportion (78.4%) of abdominal obesity. In terms of body fat, 20.0 % and 51.5% of the men had high and very high levels of body fat respectively, while among the women, 15.1% and 55.5% respectively had high and very high levels of body fat. Mongolian adults face serious risk of cardiovascular diseases and other aspects of ill-health brought about by obesity. Prevention and control of obesity should be targeted as an urgent public health agenda in Mongolia. [author abstract] [Mal J Nutr 15(2): 185 - 194, 2009]
• The Mongolian health system at a crossroads: an incomplete transition to a post-Semashkom Model
  "This [2008 World Bank] report presents the state of health of the Mongolian population and of the challenges facing the government as it reforms the health system. This chapter examines the recent deterioration in certain key health outcomes. Chapter 2 explores the factors that have contributed to these outcomes, while Chapter 3, provides recommendations for both short-term and long-term actions that the Government of Mongolia can take to rectify many of these perceived problems in the health sector. Finally, in Chapter 4, several specific ways in which the international donor community can support the government in carrying out these reforms are put forward."

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : East Asia
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Mongolia
• Great Mongol Homepage - provided by Oyunbilig, a great page
• Mongolia Online
• Mongolia World - probably the best site on the web providing numerous links to Mongolia
• 1997 Academy of Mongolian Studies Congress
• Virtual Mongol - great Japanese site on Mongolia, its people, environment, and history