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There are two worrying health indicators: Not only has the volume of vaccines in children decreased, but attention to children’s oral health has also decreased.
The analysis showed that in 2014-2018. in the country, children accounted for almost 18 percent. of the total population, but their number has decreased each year, as has the birth rate (3%). The number of sick children increased from 778.5 to 817.2 children per 1,000, but not as fast as the morbidity of the rest of the Lithuanian population. At the same time, the number of preventive visits to children by doctors has increased, according to a press release from the Institute of Hygiene.
The main groups of diseases / conditions that children have had in the last five years have remained the same: respiratory diseases; abnormal clinical and laboratory symptoms, signs and findings not elsewhere classified; diseases of the eye and its accessory organs; injuries, poisonings and certain consequences of external influences and diseases of the digestive system (without dental diseases).
Injuries and their circumstances are one of the main causes of illness, disability and death in both children and adults. 2018 The most common cause of injury in children is falls, and its location is at home. Boys are more likely to injure themselves than girls. Most poisonings in 1-4 and 15-17 years. old children.
Comparing 2014 and 2018, in Lithuania it decreased from 0 to 17 years. children with mental and behavioral disorders. Depression generally affects young people ages 15-17. boys, 3.4 times more girls than boys. According to the survey, 86.2 percent. Students in grades 5, 7, and 9 say they feel very happy or happy enough.
Mortality from childhood suicide has decreased in the last five years. In Lithuania, total child mortality is also decreasing (27.1 deaths per 100,000 children in 2014 and 18.8 in 2018), the most common causes of which are external causes of death and malignant neoplasms.
Furthermore, one of the areas where the favorable situation has been observed for many years is the health of the baby and the mother. 2014-2018 both infant mortality (from 5.6 to 3.4 cases per 1,000 live births) and stillbirth decreased. The number of births to minors also decreased (from 7.7 to 5.9 per 1,000 girls aged 16 to 17).
2014-2018 increased the proportion of children with harmful habits (the proportion of students who smoked tobacco, electronic cigarettes and cannabis increased).
During the period analyzed, disease prevention indicators decreased, not only decreased the volume of children’s vaccines, but also the slower care of children’s oral health. 20.9% of children in 2014 to 14.5% in 2018).
Comprehensive child health 2014-2018 analysis, detailed statistics illustrating past trends and others in this year’s publication “Changes and inequalities in the health status of children in Lithuania”, which is published on the website of the Institute of Hygiene www.hi.lt/informaciniai-leidiniai
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