- World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) : This is a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization and elsewhere.

Extract page 11-12 "...countries with fewer than 2.5 health care professionals (counting only doctors, nurses and midwives) per 1000 population failed to achieve an 80% coverage rate for deliveries by skilled birth attendants or for measles immunization...Using a similar “threshold” method and updated information on the size of the health workforce obtained for this report, the JLI analysis has been repeated for skilled birth attendants (see Figure 1.4). A remarkably similar threshold is found at 2.28 health care professionals per 1000 population, ranging from 2.02 to 2.54 allowing for uncertainty. The 57 countries that fall below this threshold and which fail to attain the 80% coverage level are defined as having a critical shortage. Thirty-six of them are in sub-Saharan Africa (Figure 1.5)."
Confirmed in the Q&A "Do most countries have enough health workers?": "Thirty-six countries in Africa are confronting critical shortages, meaning they have fewer than 2.3 doctors, nurses and midwives per 1000 people. These countries are unable to provide basic, life-saving services in a consistent manner."
Annex Table 4 Global distribution of health workers in WHO Member States

Health care systems in transition country profiles: These country profiles provide an analytical description of each health care system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. Profiles are available for a range of developed and developing countries in Europe.

Human Development Report 2005 - Country tables
The Human Development Report provides data and statistical analysis in various areas of human development. It usually presents two types of statistics: the human development indicator tables, which-led by the human development index (HDI)-provide a global assessment of country achievements in different areas of human development, and thematic statistical analysis in the chapters of the HDR.

Statistics from the Human Development Report 2003 are presented in an interactive world atlas.

DevData, Health, Nutrition & Population Stats, 2005

Ecoi.net collects and structures country resources with a specific focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, professional and volunteer refugee counsels as well as persons deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection.
They provide an interesting search engine that gathers information from different sources with a high reputation, such as the UN, international non-governmental organisations, news services or newspapers.

Focus Countries: For a set of currently 11 focus countries (Afghanistan, Armenian, China, Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Sudan and Turkey) more detailed country of origin information is provided by offering thematically structured information. The topic "humanitarian issues" contains a chapter labelled "health".

LACHSR provides health system country profiles, health sector analyses and an overview of national health policies of different countries in Latin America. Available in English and Spanish.

The Swiss Refugee Council does research on the refugee situation in particular countries. This provides a civil-social corrective to official assessments in refugee procedures. On this page you find internally and externally composed position papers and topic reports for several countries.

UNHCR and ACCORD regularly invite independent experts and representatives of UNHCR on country of origin information seminars to provide first-hand information on the situation in selected countries of origin to asylum authorities and refugee counsels.

8th European Country of Origin Information Seminar (Vienna, July 2002): Armenia, DRC, Nigeria, Russian Federation.

7th European Country of Origin Information Seminar (Berlin, July 2001): Algeria, Iran, Sri Lanka, Somalia

6th UNHCR Country of Origin Information Workshop (Vienna, Nov 2000): Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Russian Federation (only Chechnya)

5th UNHCR Country of Origin Information Workshop (Bratislava, Dec 1999): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, DR Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Pakistan

The country of origin information reports produced by the Home Office of the UK contain a section that discusses medical services. More specifically, they focus on HIV/AIDS, mental health and people with disabilities.

This country information is provided by the Swiss Federal Office for Migration.

The HRC has produced country health briefing papers for the following countries: Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Georgia, India, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, South Africa, Tajikistan, Uganda and Zambia.

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Africa, 2007

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2006

ISSA provides a database of social security systems in over 170 countries.

The Belgian government offers links towards social security systems in numerous countries.

Global Corruption Report 2006, Special Focus: Corruption and Health

Corruption Perceptions Index 2005

Directory of development organizations (2005) includes a country finder index and annotates each organization by category, so you'll know from the start whether an organization is worth visiting.

Palabres provides contact details of medical associations from North and West Africa.