Geographical Locations - Lithuania

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 220
• CIA World Factbook : Lithuania

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Lithuania
  - WHO - Tobacco Control: Country Profile - Lithuania
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Lithuania
• WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
• UNDP - Lithuania
• UNESCO Lithuania
• UNICEF Lithuania
• United Nations in Lithuania

Government

• Ministry of the Environment
• Ministry of Health
• Drug Control Department
• Ministry of Social Security and Labor
• Lithuanian Department of Statistics
• State Council of Youth Affairs
• State Medicines Control Agency
• State Mental Health Center

Non-Government

• COATNET Lithuania - Coatnet is a Network of Christian Organisations Against Trafficking in women. It began in 2001 on the initiative of Caritas Europa to emphasise the trans-national dimension of human trafficking. The aim of this project is to develop a network and create tools and mechanisms that would allow the transfer of information, mutual support, and operational partnership across borders. Coatnet Lithuania can mediate contact to organisations that focus their efforts to help trafficked women and fight against trafficking in women.
• Council of Lithuanian Youth Organisations - The Council of Lithuanian Youth Organisations is a platform for dialogue, representing the interests of numerous Youth Organizations in Lithuania. The council aims to raise the awareness of young people of youth organisations and the representation of their interests; to strengthen of the impact of youth organizations; to increase the social competence of young people and to alleviate social separation.
• Health Economics Centre
• Family Planning and Sexual Health Association - The Family Planning and Sexual Health Association is the only non-governmental organization in Lithuania taking care of sexual and reproductive rights and health of the community and especially of youth. The Association was founded in 1995 and it unites more than 200 members of different specialities: physicians, pedagogues, psychologists, journalists etc.
• Kaunas NGO Support Centre
• Kaunas Public Health Center - The main goal of Kaunas Public Health Center is to: protect the population from diseases, avoidable death or disability; prolong lifetime without diseases and injuries; improve life quality; and increase the economic and social productivity of human life by implementing public health surveillance in the Kaunas district.
• Lithuanian Alzheimer's Disease Association
• Lithuanian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired People
• Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights - The Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights is a non-governmental organisation established in December 1994. The main goals of the Centre are as follows: promotion of the general public to be interested in and to respect human rights; implementation of educational programmes; initiation of scientific research in the field of human rights; analysis of the human rights situation in the country; bringing up of human rights problems and suggestion of the ways for their resolution to the legislator and the Government; development of educational activities related to human rights.
• Lithuanian Food Control and Safety Network - This project aims to contribute substantially to the Integration and Strengthening of the European Research Area in the field of food safety, food quality control, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices, by means of specific support actions in Lithuania.
• Lithuanian Health Information Centre - The main functions of the Lithuanian Health Information Centre (LHIC) are to: Gather, accumulate and process statistical information about the health state of the population, activity and resources of health care institutions, human resources; Analyse regularities and changes in health state of residents, as well as the activity of health care institutions; Provide information on the issues of health state of residents and the activity of health care institutions to politicians, health managers and specialists; and Coordinate the statistical information gathered on the national level, provide consultations and methodical assistance to the institutions gathering statistical information, as well as to the institutions analysing statistical information.
• Lithuanian Heart Association
• Lithuanian Medical Association Library
• Lithuanian Psychological Association - The LPA represents and promotes psychology in Lithuania. It unifies psychologists from every region and helps to advance the profession to meet the unique challenges within the country.
• Lithuanian Public Health Association - The Lithuanian Public Health Association (LPHA) is an independent non-profitable public organization. According to the principle of independence, it unites legally registered public organizations that work in the field of health promotion and strengthening, train public health specialists, and support the programs of health promotion and strengthening.
• Lithuanian Red Cross Society
• National Centre for Health Promotion and Education
• National Medical Association of Lithuania - The NMA promotes the collective interests of medical society and patients of Lithuania. It carries out this mission by serving as the collective voice of physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists of Lithuania and a leading force for parity in world medicine, and promotion of optimal health.
• Non-Governmental Organization Information and Support Centre - The mission of Non-Governmental Organization Information and Support Centre is the development of the Lithuanian non-governmental sector through the provision of information, technical assistance, consultations and training. In Lithuanian.

Academic Institutions

• University of Vilnius
• Kaunas University of Medicine

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

Educational Resources

• Library of Congress, Country Study: Lithuania
• Lithuanian Library of Medicine - The Lithuanian Library of Medicine, founded in 1944, is the largest bookstock of medical and related sciences ( biology, psychology ). The collection contains 707 thousand copies of publications and other information sources ( microfilms, audiovisuals). The Library enriches its holdings with literature monuments of the past. They make up a valuable collection amounting to about 5 thousand titles of books from the 16th century to 1917. The oldest issue is a facsimile of "Commentariola medica et physica", published in 1584, Vilnius.
• Medicina - Medicina is the monthly medical journal of the Lithuanian Medical Association, Kaunas University of Medicine and Vilnius University
• Women's Issues Information Centre