Lithuanian Health Links

Being Updated March 2007-August 2007

The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Lithuania.  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."

Drug Information Center (E, Lt) "The main objectives of the DIC are: collect and systematize information on medicines, provide this information for health care professionals, consumers, scientists and all other to whom it concern, take part in the preparation of the legal documents of regulating the pharmaceutical activity, control the advertising of medical products."

Eumap.org (E)  "The EU Accession Monitoring Program of the Open Society Institute monitors human rights and the rule of law in Europe.  Databases covered include minority rights, the judiciary, corruption, equal opportunities, health and disability rights, media independence, and refugees and migrants."

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."

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

State Medicines Control Agency (E, Lt) Blanket agency covering narcotics, marketing, clinical trials, etc.

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."

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