Public health
Central
The Ministry of Health is responsible for:
- Improving public health care activities in compliance with the requirements of EU legal acts;
- Drafting legal acts and issuing regulation for the health sector;
- Running health care facilities and public health institutions;
- Overall responsibility for the health system performance;
- Developing, organising, coordinating and controlling the implementation of state policy in four fields: individual health care, public health, pharmaceutical activities, and health insurance.
Local
Local authorities are responsible for:
- Implementing the Lithuanian National Public Health Care Strategy through municipal health programmes;
- Establishment and maintenance of municipal health care facilities;
- Primary personal and public health care (founding, reorganization, liquidation and maintaining of establishments);
- Organising secondary health care according to the procedure laid down by law;
- Public health care of learners at pre-school education, general education schools and vocational training schools; public health improvement and public health monitoring;
- Planning and implementation of health promotion measures; support of health care of the municipal population.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania
Sources:
Law on Local Self-Government
Law on Healthcare System
Ministry of Health, 'Good Practice in the Field of Health Promotion and Primary Prevention'. Lithuania Country Review' CHRODIS Project (2014).
