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Geographical Locations - Lithuania
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Country Information
- (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 220
- CIA World Factbook : Lithuania
Organisations and Networks
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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 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 Quality 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
National Policy and Related Documents
Reports, Guidelines, and Projects
- Mortality in patients with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes in Finland, Estonia, and Lithuania: follow-up of nationwide cohorts
Objective: To assess mortality of population-based cohorts of childhood-onset type 1 diabetic patients from the Eastern European countries of Estonia and Lithuania and compare this information with recent data from Finland. Research design and methods: Estonian (n = 518) and Finnish (n = 5,156) type 1 diabetic cohorts were diagnosed between 1980 and 1994, and the Lithuanian (n = 698) cohort was diagnosed between 1983 and 1994. The mortality of these cohorts was determined in 1995. Life-table analysis, Cox survival analysis with covariates, and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were used. Causes of death were analyzed. Results: Survival after 10 years duration of type 1 diabetes was similar in Estonia (94.3%) and Lithuania (94.0%), but much higher in Finland (99.1%). In the Cox survival analysis with covariates, the country of origin and age at diagnosis were found to be significant predictors of mortality. The SMR for the Estonian cohort was 4.35 (95% CI 2.25–7.61), the highest for the Lithuanian cohort was 7.55 (4.89–11.15), and the lowest for the Finnish cohort was 1.62 (1.10–2.28). The most common cause of death in Estonia and Lithuania was diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), and in Finland, it was violent causes. No deaths from late complications of diabetes have been documented so far in any of the three countries. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate a high rate of short - term deaths due to DKA and inferior survival of childhood-onset type 1 diabetic patients in Estonia and Lithuania compared with Finland. In Finland, the survival of childhood-onset type 1 diabetic patients has improved and is only slightly inferior to that of the background population. [author abstract] [Diabetes Care 23: 290–294, 2000]
- The Social Patterning of Health, Smoking and Drinking in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland in 1994–2004
The Baltic countries share public health problems typical of most Eastern European transition economies: morbidity and mortality from non-communicable diseases is higher than in Western European countries. This situation has many similarities compared to a neighbouring country, Finland during the late 1960s. There are reasons to expect that health disadvantage may be increasing among the less advantaged population groups in the Baltic countries. The evidence on social differences in health in the Baltic countries is, however, scattered to studies using different methodologies making comparisons difficult. This study aims to bridge the evidence gap by providing comparable standardized cross-sectional and time trend analyses to the social patterning of variation in health and two key health behaviours i.e. smoking and drinking in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland in 1994-2004 representing Eastern European transition countries and a stable Western European country. [excerpt from thesis abstract] [National Public Health Institute (Finland), October 2008 (KTL A10) on behalf of the Department Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland and the Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland (Thesis within the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki)]
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
Original website founded Lucien E. Schlosser and Eberhard Wenzel, 1997.
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