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Lithuanian Case Study of Prescribed Participation in Cultural Events: Attitude of Health Care Practitioners.
Lithuanian Case Study of Prescribed Participation in Cultural Events: Attitude of Health Care Practitioners.

Author(s): Leta Dromantienė, Kęstutis Štaras, Monika Ūselytė
Subject(s): Culture and social structure , Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: cultural prescription; quality of life; health; culture;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to explore how non-medical factors influence health and well-being, quality of life (QoL). Thus, cultural attendance takes a significant role on QoL because namely culture is an important domain for health and QoL simultaneously. To analyze the possible connection between culture and health, and, attendance of cultural events in case of social project Cultural Prescription presented in a paper as one of the important dimensions of QoL. The article provides the results of that social project from a perspective of Lithuanian health care practitioners. Continuing about QoL and state inputs to it, cultural policy domains are presented to create an overall picture of it and make conditions for connection of those two segments. Research results indicate its advantages and disadvantages, which identified by health care practitioners as intermediaries between project’s organizers and those who receive prescriptions (patients).

  • Issue Year: 27/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 227-249
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English