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Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience
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 al...
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De Gruyter
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28730174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2017-0024 |
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author | Kaseliene, Snieguole Mesceriakova-Veliuliene, Olga Vladickiene, Jurgita Kalediene, Ramune Seseikaite, Neringa Stankunas, Mindaugas |
author_facet | Kaseliene, Snieguole Mesceriakova-Veliuliene, Olga Vladickiene, Jurgita Kalediene, Ramune Seseikaite, Neringa Stankunas, Mindaugas |
author_sort | Kaseliene, Snieguole |
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description | 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. CONCLUSIONS: Public health professionals working at the municipal level outlined the importance of monitoring and reducing health inequalities. However, health inequality monitoring at the municipal level was considered as insufficient. |
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spelling | pubmed-54719212017-07-20 Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience Kaseliene, Snieguole Mesceriakova-Veliuliene, Olga Vladickiene, Jurgita Kalediene, Ramune Seseikaite, Neringa Stankunas, Mindaugas Open Med (Wars) Regular Articles 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. CONCLUSIONS: Public health professionals working at the municipal level outlined the importance of monitoring and reducing health inequalities. However, health inequality monitoring at the municipal level was considered as insufficient. De Gruyter 2017-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5471921/ /pubmed/28730174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2017-0024 Text en © 2017 Snieguole Kaseliene et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. |
spellingShingle | Regular Articles Kaseliene, Snieguole Mesceriakova-Veliuliene, Olga Vladickiene, Jurgita Kalediene, Ramune Seseikaite, Neringa Stankunas, Mindaugas Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience |
title | Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience |
title_full | Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience |
title_fullStr | Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience |
title_short | Monitoring Health Inequalities at the Municipal Level: Lithuanian Experience |
title_sort | monitoring health inequalities at the municipal level: lithuanian experience |
topic | Regular Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28730174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2017-0024 |
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