Geographical Locations - Portugal

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 348
• CIA World Factbook : Portugal

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Portugal
  - WHO - Tobacco Control: Country Profile: Portugal
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Portugal
  - WHO – Progress in the Prevention of Injuries in the WHO European Region: Portugal
• WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) in Copenhagen (Denmark)

Government

• Direcção-Geral da Saúde
• Ministério do Trabalho e da Solidariedade Social

Non-Government

Academic Institutions

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Health and the Roma Community: analysis of the situation in Europe – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain
  "The Roma community is the largest ethnic minority in Europe and is characterised primarily by the situation of social exclusion and wide-ranging poverty experienced by a significant proportion of its members. Inadequate access to housing, education, employment and other needs, along with the existence of barriers to Roma access to health services and an ineffective use of these services due to their lack of adaptation and even to discrimination, all contribute to a range of avoidable injustices suffered by this community with regard to their health situation. These health inequalities are not reflected in reliable and up-to-date statistics or data, a fact which further hinders the planning of targeted interventions designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate inequality. The European project “Health and the Roma Community, Analysis of the Situation in Europe”, promoted by the Fundacion Secretariado Gitano, was implemented in 2007 to analyse the health situation of Europe’s Roma community, to address social inequalities in the area of health and to suggest policies and actions based on reliable knowledge designed to improve the health status of Europe’s Roma community and to reduce inequality. This project, funded by the European Union within the framework of the Public Health Programme, was implemented in seven European Union countries (Greece, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Portugal, Romania and Bulgaria) with the participation of public and private entities from the different participating countries and under the coordination of the Fundacion Secretariado Gitano." [EFXINI POLI – Local Authorities for Social, Cultural, Tourist, Environmental and Agricultural Development. Greece; FSG – Fundacion Secretariado Gitano. Spain; Office of the Council for Roma Community Affairs – Czech Republic; PDCS – Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia; REAPN – Rede Europeia Anti-Pobreza/Portugal; ROMANI CRISS – Roma Center for Social Interventions and Studies. Romania; and THRPF – The Health of Romany People Foundation. Bulgaria, Madrid 2009]

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Western Europe
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Portugal
• Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública