Trends in the Spread of Burns in Lithuania 2001-2010

Darius Kubilius, Rytis Rimdeika, Mindaugas Kazanavičius Abstract Background and objective. The article presents the main Lithuanian burns epidemiological data, assesses raw and standardized data trends. The burns data is compared with particular data of other casualties of external causes of the Lithuanian population and also compared with international data. Material and methods. The non-experimental descriptive…

Occupational Skin Cancers

Edita Naruševičiūtė-Skripkienė, Janina Didžiapetrienė, Jurgita Liutkevičiūtė-Navickienė Abstract Occupational skin disease are any skin, skin appendages, mucous membrane alteration caused, maintained or aggravated by factors in occupational environment. Discussion about occupational skin problems, also occupational skin cancer, is important, but occupational origin of the disorder is often missed due to shortage of information. The aim of…

Potentialities of Employment of Innovation Media in Prevention of Mental Morbidity in Society

Janina Utkuvienė Abstract In spite of various preventive programmes created in Lithuania and substantial means allotted for their implementation, there is no decrease of mental morbidity, with its indicators (incidence and prevalence) remaining stable. However, the continuous technological accomplishment allows to anticipate a great deal of changes in society. Modern information and communication technologies enable…