The Importance of healt care sector to social responsibility and sustainability: Lithuanian care

Abstract

Each country seeks to enlarge its economy, extending growth and employment level. Due to a restricted resources problem each country must seek to develop efficient economy, which would rationally use resources. The economic growth is based on sustainable (when resources are used economically) and inclusive (based on the high level of employment) development. One of the most significant resource is the labor force, which main characteristics are not only quantity, but also quality. The quality of labor force depends on health and education level of population. In Lithuania about 8.8% (Statistical ...., 2013) of the population is disabled, and this number has a tendency to increase both in Lithuania and in the World. Employed people with disabilities make up about 25,4% of the working age people with disabilities in Lithuania. On the other hand, disabled people in Lithuania, compared to all the unemployed, composed about 5.7%. Health and the economy of each country are interdependent between themselves: only more working and healthy people can develop a greater gross domestic product. On the other hand, depending on the economic development of the country, each state allocates a certain percentage of funds for health care financing. The higher a country's economic development, the bigger the financing of the health sector. Expenditure on health care and its responsible management can bring significant results of health care performance. It is always important for health care system to determine the costs, but the results of the quantitative determination are not always successful. A very important feature of this sector is that the relation of the costs and the results is defined not only economically, but also as medical and social efficiency. The expected results in terms of social efficiency should be the first, medical - the second-economic - in the third place. [...].