Lithuanian Welfare System in Times of Recent Crisis

Aidukaitė, Jolanta; Moskvina, Julija; Skučienė, Daiva

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07680-5_19

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“…Of particular importance for handling the pandemic is that all four countries have publicly financed health care systems with near universal coverage (Aidukaite, Moskvina, & Skuciene, 2016; Orosz, 2018). Also, inherited from the state socialist times, public health systems secure compulsory vaccination of the entire population against the most dangerous contagious diseases, including the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis that has been proposed as a way to reduce the severity of COVID‐19 (Escobar et al, 2020).…”

Section: From the Pandemic To The Economic Crisismentioning

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“…Slovakia implemented a workfare scheme of public service ‘activation’ jobs during 2000s, although not as a reaction to the global crisis (Saxonberg & Sirovatka, 2019). In Lithuania, due to a dramatic increase in unemployment in 2009, the unemployment insurance benefits were reduced temporarily (Aidukaite et al, 2016). This situation would suggest that Eastern European countries, when facing yet another economic downfall following the COVID‐19 pandemic, would not do much to cater to the unemployed via direct social subsidies or training and retraining programs.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe

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This article documents and compares the social policies that the governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented to combat the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic by focusing on Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. Our findings show that governments in all four countries reacted to the COVID‐19 crisis by providing extensive protection for jobs and enterprises. Differences arise when it comes to solidaristic policy responses to care for the most vulnerable population, in which CEE countries show great variation. We find that social policy responses to the first wave of COVID‐19 have largely depended on precious social policy trajectories as well as the political situation of the country during the pandemic.

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“…The current extreme market orientation is not modified by social support institutions and is combined with conservative ideologies about women and family ( Kabašinskaitė & Bak, 2006 ). The liberal approach is growing strong roots in the Lithuanian welfare state system ( Aidukaite, Moskvina, & Skucienė, 2016 ). It is thus not surprising that alcohol consumption and the resulting harms are more prevalent in Lithuania than in other Eastern European countries ( Moskalewicz, Room, & Thom, 2016 ; Shield, Rylett, & Rehm, 2016 ).…”

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Alcohol-related child maltreatment

Tamutienė

2018

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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Aim: To increase understanding of alcohol-related child maltreatment on the basis of child protection cases in Lithuania. The study is based on a document content analysis of 203 case records of families at social risk. It identifies the prevalence of alcohol-related harm by analysing associations between types of drinkers and child maltreatment. It also maps the distribution of people who typically report this maltreatment. Both qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches are employed. Results: Child neglect was the most prevalent type of child maltreatment and was usually reported together with other types of child maltreatment. Child maltreatment was typically mentioned in the context of a caregiver's heavy drinking. In 85.7% (174) of the cases, the family had at least one problem drinker. More than one problem drinker was detected in as many as a third of all cases. At least one form of child maltreatment was detected in families with a drinking mother in 60% of the cases (w 2 ¼ 4.825, p < 0.05), with a drinking father in 36% of the cases (p > 0.05), and in 15% of the cases (p > 0.05) when there was a drinking partner in the family. The most common source of reporting by the authorities was the police (26.6%), and the most typical non-official source was the child's relatives (16.3%). Conclusions: Alcoholrelated child maltreatment needs special attention if issues of child safety in Lithuania are to be disclosed, evaluated, and responded to. Further research on this topic is needed.

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“…Long‐term care of older 2 people in Lithuania may be seen as an emerging social risk (Poškutė & Greve, 2017). The latest developments in its welfare state reflect the neoliberal ideology – more market elements are being introduced, and the emphasis is put on the individual responsibility for one's well‐being (Aidukaite et al., 2016; Polese et al., 2014). LTC of older people is still highly dependent on informal care, the extent of which considerably exceeds that of the formal care (Žalimienė & Junevičienė, 2018); however, satisfying the increasing LTC demand informally has become less realistic than before.…”

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Stakeholder collaboration in long‐term care of older people in Lithuania

Poškutė

Kazlauskaitė

Matonytė

2021

Health Soc Care Community

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Demographic situation, changes in the role of women in society and growing demand for long‐term care (LTC) of older people have challenged the ability to meet the growing LTC needs in most developed countries. In countries where responsibility for LTC is still largely laid on families, it is, however, even more critical and calls for improvements in formal LTC systems. More intensive stakeholder collaboration in LTC policy development, organising and delivery are of primary importance in improving LTC systems. Such collaboration, however, is not always successful; thus, it is critical to understand what makes it effective and efficient. In this paper, we specifically look into multistakeholder collaboration in LTC in Lithuania, one of the fastest ageing countries in the EU, with the demand for LTC services growing fast and exceeding the supply despite rising business and NGO engagement. To determine facilitators of such collaboration, we build on the data obtained through eight focus group discussions with all key stakeholder representatives (LTC policymakers, organisers and service providers [public, private and NGOs], 54 participants in total). Our findings indicate that in addition to national and organisational level facilitators studied in prior research, there are important individual level factors, such as meaningfulness at work, concern and care for others, possibility for personal growth and development, satisfaction with supervision, a sense of belonging and role clarity. On the other hand, our results show that collaboration is constrained by a shortage of human resources, increased workload caused by growing LTC demand, bureaucratic requirements, legal restrictions, lack of awareness of LTC service availability among elder persons, and prevailing social norms and attitudes to institutionalised care. Interestingly, a lack of financial resources is not perceived as a major constraint.

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Lithuanian Welfare System in Times of Recent Crisis

Cited by 9 publications

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Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe

Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe

Alcohol-related child maltreatment

Stakeholder collaboration in long‐term care of older people in Lithuania

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