Estonian Health Links

by Gundars Kaupins, Boise State University

Being Updated March 2007-August 2007

The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Estonia.  There is no commercial purpose or personal financial gain from this link page.  Most links include a title, languages used, services, and a brief description of the mission and purpose of the site.  Services include search engines, blogs, on-line polls, site of origin (e.g., .lv, .com, .net) and transactions.  Transactions could be nonfinancial (e.g., registration) to financial (e.g., payment of fees) Almost every brief description is a direct quote from the link.  Most of these direct quotes will refer to either the mission or objectives of the link.

 

Baltic Sea Network on Occupational Health and Safety (E, Est) "The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is a research and specialist organization in the sector of occupational health and safety. Connections are with Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Northwest Russia, Norway and Poland."

EurasiaHealth (E)  "Clearinghouse of health resources for the Baltic States among other areas.  Provides numerous links to health resources."

European Agency for Safety at Work (E) "The Agency has entered into bilateral arrangements with many third countries and international organizations to share information in the field of safety and health at work. The result of this co-operation can be accessed online via the Agency’s websites and the joint websites established by its network partners. In this section we present an overview of our growing international safety and health network. Site provides many legal, health, and other links."

Occupational Safety and Health in Lithuania (E)  "Health and safety issues, monitoring of the workplace, occupational health services, training, chemical safety data sheets, structures with dealing with occupational health and environmental health."

Ministry of Social Affairs (E, Est, R) "Ministry in the Estonian government covers social welfare, health, the labor market, work life, gender equality, and legislation."

National Centre for Infectious Diseases (E) "Health Information for Travelers to Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (NIS)."

Rakvere Child Welfare Union (E, Est) Links to social welfare and health, advocacy and rule of law, and human rights.

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (EURO) (E, F, R, Dutch) "The official Web site of the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) provides country-specific and topic-specific health information for people who influence health policy in the WHO European Region, and the media."

 

Language Key

(E) English
(Lv) Latvian
(Lt) Lithuanian
(Est) Estonian
(R) Russian
(G) German
(F) French
(S) Swedish
(P) Polish
other languages are fully spelled out

 

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