A5036060767- Child and Adolescent Health
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Education, Leadership, and Health Research
- Human Rights and Development
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Research in Social Sciences
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Global Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Vilnius University
2015-2024
United Nations
2015-2019
University of Essex
2017
Right to Care
2016
Vilnius College of Design
2004
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters
1999
Abstract Background The problem of underestimating the burden mental health-related mortality is widely discussed in public health literature. Relevant scientific evidence from societies experiencing largest important for better understanding global and national challenges improving policies. Three Baltic States - Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia are countries Central Eastern European region that experienced post-soviet transition trauma showed among highest suicide alcohol-related rates Europe....
Human rights scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic has largely focused on limitations of individual freedoms to protect public health, yet it is essential look at broader relevance realising human promote health response. The right enjoyment highest attainable standard physical and mental provides binding normative guidance for health-care systems, social responses, global solidarity. As recognised International Covenant Economic, Social Cultural Rights, requires that states take steps...
Mental health is emerging from the shadows. Human rights are on agenda, and advocates increasingly calling for parity with general funding a reduction of treatment gap people in crisis, particularly low- middle-income countries. There high-level agreement key components good mental policy, promotion to prevention, rehabilitation. However, important disagreements remain about how invest resources. An impasse has emerged, it risks hardening into dispute. The controversy relates complex...
Summary Psychiatrists have an essential role to play in promoting human rights mental healthcare. The World Health Organization's QualityRights initiative, partnership with different stakeholders, is improving the quality of psychiatric care countries.
From the public health perspective, epidemiological data of child mental and psychosocial correlates were necessary very lacking in Lithuanian society that has been undergoing rapid socio-economic change since past decades. Together with determining prevalence rates disorders assessing needs for services, this study also shifted attention from highly selective samples children attending adolescent services towards less severe cases psychopathology as well different attitudes parents...
Abstract To support development of effective policy and action for child adolescent mental health (CAMH), key national and/or regional information on monitoring, evaluation, obstacles opportunities in CAMH from 15 European countries was collected. National expert groups each country were created to collect the data complete a specially designed questionnaire. The highlight that 1) implementation outcomes policies plans are not assessed systematically Europe, 2) prevalence positive health,...
Drug prohibition, including criminalisation to regulate the supply and demand of controlled substances, has had devastating effects on human rights public health worldwide.Prohibition as an international policy response gives rise illicit drug markets governed by criminal networks regulated violence.The poor marginalised communities in which drugs are cultivated, transited, or sold disproportionately affected.States have responded with increased law enforcement, escalating violence further...
As a part of international mental health policy, programmes and services project, the 'country profile' instrument was used for assessment policy in Republic Lithuania. Analysis contextual factors revealed high levels social pathology (including violence, suicide other self-destructive behaviour) with stigmatizing approaches by general population to mentally disturbed persons vulnerable groups. existing data about resources invested care system raises questions policymakers effectiveness...
Abstract Parental mental health disorders present a major risk for children's psychiatric and intergenerational chain of social exclusion. Work Package 5 (WP5) in the CAMHEE programme was an initiative on European level to bring children families with parental illness onto agenda. Partners WP5 came from Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Lithuania, Norway Romania. The experiences emphasise that it is important every country learn what legal, human rights, service life situation these take...
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) developed by R. Goodman (1997) has been widely used in epidemiological studies throughout the world as a screening measure for mental health children adolescents. The SDQ comprises 25 items plus supplement on impact of difficulties child family. There are 5 subscales: Prosocial behaviour, Hyperactivity, Emotional symptoms, Conduct problems Peers problems, last four adding up to Total score. design with both strength’ difficulties’ supposedly...