Health studies Lithuania 2016: Importance of health for sustainable growth of economy

Abstract

The goal of the Health Studies Lithuania 2016 is to present statistics regarding changing role of health in modern societies. • The first chapter is about mutual causation between growth of GDP and health status of population. • The second chapter is about changing role of health in national employment, outcomes of national economies as well as interaction between health and agriculture, industry, social insurance • The third chapter is about national management of health with emphasis on Lithuanian experience what regards development and implementation of long term health strategies • The forth chapter is about statistics of health costs in line with recent development of National Health Accounts (HEDIC) • The fifth chapter is about recent development of demographic and health statistics.