Health policy strategy in local level: experience from the country with high health inequalities

Beržanskytė, Aušra; Jakubauskienė, M; Butkevičienė, Rūta; Stepukonis, Faustas; Butikis, Mindaugas; Kalèdiené, Ramuné

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“…Study results have revealed that the most common obstacles and pitfalls for tackling health inequalities are as follows: lack of credibility of statistical data, lack of uniform attitude towards health inequalities, lack of leadership and weak intersectoral collaboration. A more detailed description of this study and results are presented elsewhere [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. These outcomes implicitly supported the directions for further actions in planning and running the project -development of monitoring system, preparations of recommendations for reduction and capacity building for public health professionals.…”

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Norwegian support for tackling health inequalities in Lithuania: the process, pitfalls and results

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Kalèdiené²,

Valintėlienė³

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Socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care are important challenges for public health. In terms of health inequalities, Lithuania is among the most unfavourable countries in the European Union. In 2014, the Lithuanian Parliament approved its "Health Programme 2014-2025". One strategic goal of this programme is to reduce health and health care inequalities in Lithuania. The purpose of the project was to develop an evidence-based platform for health and health care inequalities to monitor and strengthen the administrative capacities of personnel involved in policy making at national and municipal levels. It included four main actions: 1) analysis of the present situation in monitoring and reducing health inequalities; 2) development of a sustainable health inequalities monitoring system; 3) development of a set of recommendations for public health professionals for health inequalities reduction; and 4) capacity development of public health professionals and health policy makers in the area of health inequalities. We expect that recommendations coming from this project will contribute to change practices in the target groups, thereby improving public health and reducing health and health care inequalities in Lithuania. Moreover, this model could serve as an example relevant for other countries confronted with the task of tackling health inequalities.

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