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Taking over western social policy model, contemporary Lithuanian health care system (HCS) faces not only with the low trust in institutions but also with the changing biomedical position in the healing process. The increasing spectrum of chronic diseases and lay knowledge of patients, shifting doctor-patient relationship and all other indicators promote a rebirth of alternative medicine in Western societies. Although alternative health care has deep-seated traditions in Lithuania, however due to hegemony of biomedicine in contemporary society, alternative health care is limited to rare individual initiatives. The goal of this article is to identify public attitudes towards health care policy and alternative health care as part of health care system. The article employs data from the representative Lithuanian population survey conducted in 2011 under the International Social Survey Programme (module "Health").DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.12.1.4011 ; Sveikatos priežiūros sistema, perimdama vakarietišką socialinės politikos modelį, susiduria ne tik su menku pasitikėjimu institucijomis, bet ir kintančia biomedicinos pozicija gydymo procese. Daugėjant lėtinių ligų, didėjant pacientų informatyvumui, kintant gydytojo ir paciento santykiui Vakarų valstybėse daug dėmesio skiriama alternatyviai medicinai. Nors Lietuvoje alternatyvios medicinos praktikos turi gilias tradicijas, visgi dėl biomedicinos hegemonijos alternatyvi medicinos praktika taikoma tik asmenine iniciatyva. Remiantis reprezentatyvios Lietuvos gyventojų apklausos duomenimis, gautais 2011 m. įgyvendinus Tarptautinės socialinio tyrimo programos (ISSP) apklausų modulį "Sveikata"[1], šiame straipsnyje analizuojamas pasitikėjimas sveikatos priežiūros sistema ir alternatyvios medicinos pozicija sveikatos sektoriuje. Straipsnyje daroma išvada, kad dabartinė Lietuvos visuomenė alternatyviąją mediciną vis dar vertina skeptiškai. [1] Straipsnis parengtas Kauno technologijos universiteto Politikos ir viešojo administravimo institutui vykdant mokslo ...

Analyzing the qualitative data from 4 focus-group interviews (2 interviews were conducted in urban and 2 in rural locations), this article identifies features of political and social trust and participation in relation to the consolidation of democracy in Lithuania. Lithuanians have low trust in political institutions; their trust depends on complex factors such as a big social gap between the political institutions and citizens, negative portrayals of the political institutions in mass media, centralized decisions of the political institutions or minimization of a communal voice. Political trust is low in communities and locations in which local authorities do not support or maintain any social contacts with local residents. Mass media influence immensely citizens' political trust in the national government or political institutions; citizens' distrust is often based on media scandals involving politicians and public figures. Lithuanians' participation in communal or public activities is often characterized by the principle of competition: several communities or non-governmental organizations in the same location often duplicate same tasks and compete with each other. Similarly, because of their narrow activities and social networks, communities tend to maintain fragmentary connections with local residents. Pragmatic, rational and personal interests as well as a trust in narrow social networks characterize the low level of social trust in people and limited communal participation in Lithuania.

Analyzing the qualitative data from 4 focus-group interviews (2 interviews were conducted in urban and 2 in rural locations), this article identifies features of political and social trust and participation in relation to the consolidation of democracy in Lithuania. Lithuanians have low trust in political institutions; their trust depends on complex factors such as a big social gap between the political institutions and citizens, negative portrayals of the political institutions in mass media, centralized decisions of the political institutions or minimization of a communal voice. Political trust is low in communities and locations in which local authorities do not support or maintain any social contacts with local residents. Mass media influence immensely citizens' political trust in the national government or political institutions; citizens' distrust is often based on media scandals involving politicians and public figures. Lithuanians' participation in communal or public activities is often characterized by the principle of competition: several communities or non-governmental organizations in the same location often duplicate same tasks and compete with each other. Similarly, because of their narrow activities and social networks, communities tend to maintain fragmentary connections with local residents. Pragmatic, rational and personal interests as well as a trust in narrow social networks characterize the low level of social trust in people and limited communal participation in Lithuania.

Analyzing the qualitative data from 4 focus-group interviews (2 interviews were conducted in urban and 2 in rural locations), this article identifies features of political and social trust and participation in relation to the consolidation of democracy in Lithuania. Lithuanians have low trust in political institutions; their trust depends on complex factors such as a big social gap between the political institutions and citizens, negative portrayals of the political institutions in mass media, centralized decisions of the political institutions or minimization of a communal voice. Political trust is low in communities and locations in which local authorities do not support or maintain any social contacts with local residents. Mass media influence immensely citizens' political trust in the national government or political institutions; citizens' distrust is often based on media scandals involving politicians and public figures. Lithuanians' participation in communal or public activities is often characterized by the principle of competition: several communities or non-governmental organizations in the same location often duplicate same tasks and compete with each other. Similarly, because of their narrow activities and social networks, communities tend to maintain fragmentary connections with local residents. Pragmatic, rational and personal interests as well as a trust in narrow social networks characterize the low level of social trust in people and limited communal participation in Lithuania.

Analyzing the qualitative data from 4 focus-group interviews (2 interviews were conducted in urban and 2 in rural locations), this article identifies features of political and social trust and participation in relation to the consolidation of democracy in Lithuania. Lithuanians have low trust in political institutions; their trust depends on complex factors such as a big social gap between the political institutions and citizens, negative portrayals of the political institutions in mass media, centralized decisions of the political institutions or minimization of a communal voice. Political trust is low in communities and locations in which local authorities do not support or maintain any social contacts with local residents. Mass media influence immensely citizens' political trust in the national government or political institutions; citizens' distrust is often based on media scandals involving politicians and public figures. Lithuanians' participation in communal or public activities is often characterized by the principle of competition: several communities or non-governmental organizations in the same location often duplicate same tasks and compete with each other. Similarly, because of their narrow activities and social networks, communities tend to maintain fragmentary connections with local residents. Pragmatic, rational and personal interests as well as a trust in narrow social networks characterize the low level of social trust in people and limited communal participation in Lithuania.

Analyzing the qualitative data from 4 focus-group interviews (2 interviews were conducted in urban and 2 in rural locations), this article identifies features of political and social trust and participation in relation to the consolidation of democracy in Lithuania. Lithuanians have low trust in political institutions; their trust depends on complex factors such as a big social gap between the political institutions and citizens, negative portrayals of the political institutions in mass media, centralized decisions of the political institutions or minimization of a communal voice. Political trust is low in communities and locations in which local authorities do not support or maintain any social contacts with local residents. Mass media influence immensely citizens' political trust in the national government or political institutions; citizens' distrust is often based on media scandals involving politicians and public figures. Lithuanians' participation in communal or public activities is often characterized by the principle of competition: several communities or non-governmental organizations in the same location often duplicate same tasks and compete with each other. Similarly, because of their narrow activities and social networks, communities tend to maintain fragmentary connections with local residents. Pragmatic, rational and personal interests as well as a trust in narrow social networks characterize the low level of social trust in people and limited communal participation in Lithuania.