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The health and the public are
closely related: the public development depends on its health, and
the health depends on public development. That�s why the main goal
for ages is � to avoid the illness and to safe humans health. Till
the year 1700 an ill person was isolated from public, in order to
avoid the communicable diseases. Only in 1840 it was started to care
about the sanitation of environment and from 1910 � about the
personal hygiene.
 The Lithuanian Sanitary
institution�s functioning begins from the second part of XIX
century, when the Executable Sanitary Commissions were established
in Vilnius and Kaunas. Vilnius and Kaunas governments began to care
about the medical and sanitation issues only from 1876 when Town
Regulation law came into force. In an interwar time general
sanitation, school�s sanitation, pupil�s health preserve, diseases
prevention, sanitarian education was underway of some state
institutions. The input of the municipalities in the sanitation
field was the biggest. The National Sanitary Inspection under the
territory government was acting till 1945. These institutions became
independent Sanitary-Epidemiological Stations and in 1991 were
reorganized into Hygiene Centres. The last change was made in 1995 �
Sanitary-Epidemiological Stations were named as Public Health
Centres. Some of the Public Health Centres inspection functions were
divorced to the other institutions, such as State Non Food Products
Inspectorate and State
Food and Veterinary Service in 2000.
That�s why Public Health Centres put very big efforts for public
health promotion.
Ministry of Health established the State Public
Health Service under the Ministry of Health
(SPHS)
on 15th
of May, 2000, in order to:
- to strengthen public health;
- to prevent the dangers for humans health;
- to inform public about the possibilities to safe and
strengthen health.
The objectives of the
SPHS
were changed
in 2006 when specialized public health institutions became
accountable to the Ministry of Health.
The Public Health Centres in the counties and the
National Public Health Research Centre are under supervision of the
SPHS
now.
Vision
� developed public health care system ensures public health safety
and effectively protects the consumer rights. The healthy and safe
community uses the services,
coincident
to the public
health safety requirements.
Mission
� to develop the public health care system which would ensure the
safety of public health and would protect the consumer rights in a
way of public health safety and the quality of services.
The main goal
of SPHS � to ensure the public health safety and to protect consumer
rights in a way of public health safety and the quality of services
by implementing health policy.
The main objectives of the SPHS:
- To ensure the effective public administration services.
- To implement national public health safety control.
- To protect consumer rights in a way of services quality.
- To ensure the safety of the environment according the law
requirements.
- To prevent and control communicable diseases.
- To strengthen public health.
- To control the licensed public health care services.
The main functions of the SPHS:
- To coordinate and to control subordinated institutions.
- To organize and to implement national public health safety
control.
- To participate at the control of the health emergency
situations.
- To prevent and control communicable diseases (from the 1st
of January, 2008).
- To protect consumer rights.
- To ensure safe environment for public health.
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