Lithuanian Case Study of Prescribed
Participation in Cultural Events: Attitude
of Health Care Practitioners
Więcej
Ukryj
1
Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
2
Vilnius Central Outpatient Clinic, Lithuania
Data publikacji: 31-12-2015
JoMS 2015;27(4):227-250
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE
STRESZCZENIE
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).