Geographical Locations - Poland

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 490
• CIA World Factbook : Poland

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Poland
  - WHO - Tobacco control: Country Profile: Poland
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Poland
  - WHO – Progress in the Prevention of Injuries in the WHO European Region: Poland
• WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
• United Nations - Poland
• UNDP Poland - Polish language
• UNFPA Poland Country Profile

Government

• Central Statistical Office
• Main Pharmaceutical Directorate
• Ministry of Environment
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
• Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia
• National Institute of Hygiene
• National Institute of Public Health

Non-Government

• Barka Foundation
  "A non-governmental organization whose aim is to provide a chance for those falling outside the bounds of 'normal' society to rebuild their lives through mutual self-help"
• Fundacja Partnerstwo Dla Srodowiska
  "A member of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe, a consortium of four indigenous foundations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary that are focused on stimulating citizen participation around the badly damaged environment in the region"
• Instytut Kardiologii - Institute of Cardiology, In Polish
• Nobody's Children Foundation
  "The Nobody's Children Foundation is a nonprofit non-governmental organization, which provides a broad scope of assistance to abused children, their parents, and guardians. ...The Foundation's main goal is to develop an efficient aid system for abused children, a system that would integrate activities of state institutions, local authorities and non-governmental organizations working for the benefit of children in the particular region."
• Polish Academy of Sciences
• PAN - Centre for Medical Biology
• Polish Association of Industrial Hygienists
• Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning
  The Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning acts for gender equality by defending women's and girls' reproductive rights which include: access to family planning information and services, reliable and comprehensive sex education, access to high quality prenatal diagnosis, right to legal and safe abortion, high quality, gender-sensitive women's reproductive health services aimed at fulfilling specific health needs of women (e.g. legal abortion, contraceptives, ART) and observance of women's rights as health services users (right to dignity, information, privacy, informed consent, confidentiality).
• Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute
  Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital- Research Institute, in Łódź is one of the largest highly specialised medical centres in Poland. The Hospital is composed of two major units: Gynaecological/ Obstetric and Paediatric and is a leading medical centre of perinatology, gynaecology, obstetrics and paediatrics.
• Polski Czerwoney Krzyż (Polish Red Cross) - site is in Polish
• Stowarzyszenie SPEC (Association for the Disabled)

Academic Institutions

• Medical University of Łódź
• Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine , Lodz
• Jagiellonian University Krakow
  - Institute of Public Health
• Medical University of Warsaw
• Poznan University of Medical Sciences

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Health Systems in Transition: Poland
  The Health Systems in Transition profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development in a specific country. Health Systems in Transition profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe.

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Eastern Europe and the NIS
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Poland