Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kaseliene, Snieguole
• Mesceriakova-Veliuliene, Olga
• Vladickiene, Jurgita
• Kalediene, Ramune
• Seseikaite, Neringa
• Stankunas, Mindaugas

Titel

Monitoring health inequalities at the municipal level: Lithuanian experience

Ist Teil von

• Central European journal of medicine, 2017-01, Vol.12 (1), p.163-170

Ort / Verlag

Poland: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Open access)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study aimed to assess the attitudes of Lithuanian public health professionals towards health inequality monitoring in municipalities. The survey was conducted in public health bureaus (PHBs) and administrations of municipalities in March 2015. All employees of PHBs, all municipal doctors and all employees of health departments were invited to participate in the study (N=318; response rate, 47.2%). The study participants had positive attitudes towards the importance of health inequality monitoring at the municipal level, meanwhile systematic health inequality monitoring was assessed moderately. The majority of the interviewed professionals working at PHBs and municipalities (91.4% and 88.2%, respectively) declared that health indicators were monitored and analysed in their institutions. The respondents acknowledged the importance of routine monitoring of health indicators for assessment of inequalities, but these indicators were not monitored systematically in every municipality and PHB. Public health professionals identified the following measures for better health inequality monitoring: to strengthen intersectoral collaboration, formulate specific objectives of health programmes, promote actions in reducing health inequalities.