Acta Educationis Generalis (Aug 2020)

Legal Framework for the Training of Health Care Specialists in the Health Care System of Lithuania to Work with the Disabled

  • Ratkevičienė Milda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2020-0015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 150 – 161

Abstract

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Introduction:Health care is one of the most important fields not only in individual countries, but globally as well, yet it remains one of the most sensitive topics, too. Global organisations have calculated that one out of seven residents around the world has some sort of disability. It is very likely that due to various processes, the number of people with disabilities will increase. Therefore, the world in general and each country in particular, Lithuania included, faces a great challenge: to ensure suitable and high-quality accessibility to health care services for the disabled. Each country must have clear political guidelines and strategies how to ensure training of health care specialists qualified and able to carry out their tasks when working with the disabled. Therefore, this article analyses global trends of training specialists to work with the disabled and legal basis of such specialist training in Lithuania.

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