Geographical Locations - Sweden

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 395
• CIA World Factbook : Sweden

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Sweden
  - WHO - Tobacco Control: Country Profile - Sweden
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Sweden
• WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
• UNDP - Nordic Office

Government

• Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
• National Institute of Public Health
• SIDA - Swedish International Development Agency
• Statistics Sweden
• Swedish Council for Work Life and Social Research
  A central government agency for the long-term planning and funding of research and development. The Council is a major source of funding for Swedish research on subjects related to the work environment and working life, as well as one of the most important sources of funding of applied research and development in Sweden
• Swedish Healthy Communities and Cities Network
• Swedish Urban Environment Council
  "Plays an important role in urban development in Sweden, by initiating public and professional debate on current urban issues. It is also a think tank to Boverket, the National Board for Housing, Building and Planning"
• Stigslund's School - one of 11 Swedish schools participating in the European Health-Promoting Schools Network

Non-Government

• Swedish Association of Health Professionals

Academic Institutions

• University of Umeå
  -- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
• Göteborg University
  -- Department of Social Medicine
• Halmstad University,
  -- School of Social and Health Sciences
• Lund University
  -- Department of Community Medicine
• Karolinska Institutet
  -- Department of Humanities, Informatics, and Social Sciences
  -- Department of Medical Epidemiology
  -- Department of Medical Nutrition
  -- Department of Public Health Sciences
  -- Child and Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  -- Division of Occupational Medicine
  -- Health Promotion Research Internet Network (HPRIN)
  -- WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion
  -- WHO Collaborating Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention
  -- WHO Collaborating Centre Supportive Environments for Health
  -- WHO Collaborating Research and Training Centre on Psychosocial Factors and Health
  -- Department of Women and Child Health
  -- Institute of Environmental Medicine
• The Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg
• University of Linköping
  -- Department of Health and Society
• University of Uppsala
  -- Department of Sociology : Social Gerontology Group

National Policy and Related Documents

• Sweden’s strategy report for social protection and social inclusion: 2008 – 2010
  "Every three years the Member States report to the EU Commission on which measures they have taken and plan to take to help achieve the common EU objectives for social security and social inclusion. On 30 September 2008 the Government submitted Sweden's strategy report on social security and social inclusion 2008-2010 to the EU Commission. The report contains: National action plan for social inclusion, 2008-2010; National strategy for pensions; and National strategy for health and medical care, and care of the elderly."
• The national public health strategy for Sweden in brief
  "The overall aim of Swedish public health policy [c2007] is to create social conditions that will ensure good health for the entire population. The Swedish Riksdag adopted in April 2003 a national health policy stipulating eleven general objectives that cover the most important determinants of Swedish public health."

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Getting better value for moeny for Sweden's healthcare system
  "This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of of the Swedish healthcare system and the challenges that it will face in the future. It discusses ways to improve access to primary care, including different methods for paying GPs, whether access is less equitable than in other countries and the role of patient fees. The maximum waiting time guarantee for elective surgery is reviewed, along with ways of reducing regional variations in quality..."
• Health Systems in Transition Report Sweden
  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. Each profile is produced by country experts in collaboration with the European Observatory on Health System’s research directors and staff. Health Systems in Transition profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe.
• Evidence-based health promotion for children and adolescents in Stockholm county
  "The purpose of this report is to give people working within health care, municipalities and voluntary organisation, as well as others who might be interested, an up-to-date account of the health status of children and adolescents and of useful methods for preventing ill-health and promoting health among children and adolescents in Stockholm county."
• Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice
  "The impressive improvements in health for the Swedish population during the last two and a half centuries can be ascribed to many reasons. There has been a multifold of important public health measures including the regular collection of vital statistics from 1749 on a national level through the state church, which also played an important role in the early and widespread vaccination coverage against smallpox. Preventive mother and child care, access to health care free of charge, restrictive alcohol policy, accident prevention in several sectors and anti-tobacco campaigns have also been important. However, the increased living standard due to universal welfare policy strategies including social security, high educational standard, high degree of employment for women and men, regional and housing subsidies, appears to be equally or even more important." This report looks at the history of public health services in Sweden, from pre-Enlightenment to the present day, and examines what has been learnt during this period.

Educational Resources

• 2nd Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, in Stockholm 1998 - Keynote Speakers
• CDC - Travel Information : Western Europe
• Q-Web
  Q Web is an interactive global resource-base and platform for knowledge-sharing between organisations, students, researchers and individuals who are interested in, working with or researching the field of Gender Equality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights as well as Empowerment.