Raseiniai District Municipality Community's Health Enhancing and Health Promotion Activities Evaluation Report
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RASEINIAI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY COMMUNITY'S HEALTH ENHANCING AND HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES EVALUATION REPORT INTRODUCTION Sports and active leisure time is an important activity of human life. Thousands of years of human existence depended on vigorous physical activity. However scientifical and technical achievements aroused noticeable contradictions between biological and social human origin. Sedentary work, home appliances automation, computerisation, communication improvement measures have reduced the need to move, spread to a passive lifestyle and caused the problem of lack of physical activity. European institutions recognise that the sport based on volunteering plays a special role in European society, particularly in the health, education, social integration, and culture domains. The aim of Raseiniai district municipality community's health enhancing and health promotion activities rating report - to analyse carefully and describe the practicable situation of health enhancing and health promotion activities remedies and actions in Raseiniai district municipality, to evaluate the legal regulation ordinance, effected in this region, to disclose achievements, the main problems and possible solutions, provide sports and public health promotion sector development opportunities, priorities and draw up recommendations. Reports material will be used for the Erasmus + program project "Health promoting physical activity strategies development and practical implementation in the local communities'' to develop strategic guidelines and during the project implementation to plan and execute provided health promoting physical activity actions and measures. The evaluation report discusses the physical education and sports and health promoting physical activity and organizing principles, legal documents, regulating the activities of local and state authorities competence of sports, active promotion of physical activity and health promotion in the field of municipal supervised budget institutions, non-governmental body of cultural and sports organizations competence in the development of sport and health promotion activities. The health enhancing physical activity and health promotion activities in Raseiniai district municipality (further – municipality) based on the following principles: 1. Generality - in sport and active health enhancing physical activity is included in as many as possible district residents and public organizations; 2. Suitability, acceptability - the proposed health enhancing physical activity and health promotion activities and forms must be attractive, interesting, would be pregnable by all residents and meet their needs; 3. Equality - conditions are created to take part in sports and in health enhancing. Vigorous physical activities for everyone, regardless of their gender, age, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and social or economic status; 4. Cooperation - -The municipal administration authorities, farm operators, non- governmental organisations cooperate in the formulation and implementation of health promoting activities. 2 THE COMMON SURVEY ON SITUATION OF RASEINIAI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY Raseiniai district municipality is situated in western or southeastern ethnographic region part of Zemaitija, almost in the centre of Lithuania, in the northwestern part of Kaunas county. One of the scenic Lithuanian rivers Dubysa is the biggest river of Raseiniai district. Dubysa is particularly a favourite river of nature lovers, rural tourism and canoeing sport enthusiasts. Dubysa's and Tytuvėnai regional parks parts are situated in the district. Sesuvis, Saltuona, Mituva also flows in its territory. There are two lakes Meiliskio and Paezerio and 19 ponds. Raseiniai District Municipality total area is the 1.573 km². The district covers 2.4 percent of Lithuania's area and 19.5 percent Kaunas County area. 1. picture. Raseiniai district municipality Raseiniai district municipal area is crossed by international values transport corridors : A1 highway Vilnius - Kaunas - Klaipeda and the A-12 motorway Riga - Siauliai - Tauragė - Kaliningrad. The two towns there are in Raseiniai district municipal area-Raseiniai and Ariogala, 8 townships: Betygala, Girkalnis, Lyduvenai, Nemakščiai, Siluva, Vidukle, Zaiginys and Kalnujai and 590 villages. The district operates 10 rural (Ariogala's, Betygala's, Girkalnis, Kalnujai, Nemaksciai, Pagojukai,Paliepiai, Raseiniai, Siluva's, Vidukle) and 2 town's (and Raseiniai and Ariogala's) head communities. The centre of Raseiniai municipality is a town of Raseiniai. It is one of the oldest towns in Lithuania.Raseiniai mentioned in historical sources from 1253. XV-XVIII century, the town was the administrative centre of Zemaiciai ward. Raseiniai district municipality has established friendly relations and co-operate with Latvia Ķekava's municipality, Ukrainian Vinnitsa area Zmerinkos district municipality, Estonia Rapla municipality, Poland Liubartov municipality, Poland Mlawa Municipality,and Russian federation Kaliningrad area Slavsk district's municipality. According to the Lithuanian Department of Statistics data in 2015 in Raseiniai district lived 35032 residents, the number of pupils/children attending educational institutions was 4960, the number of pupils attending general education schools - 3964. According to the statistics data over the last 5-year the number of population has been steadily declining. It also reduced the number of children and the youth, but increased the number of population of retirement-age and 3 the disabled. These downward trend in the period under review was dominated in Kaunas county and the country. This determines to low birth rates, increasing mortality rates and increasing emigration from the district to the major towns of Lithuania and to the other countries. It should be noted that improving the employment indicators, declining number of registered unemployed, emerges more employment opportunities, as well as the indicators of improvement trends determines to the municipality performed purposeful social policy. Registered unemployed and the working-age population ratio shows the capacity of the economy, which determines the size of the budget income and expenses. 1 table. Statistical data on Raseiniai composition of the population and development trends over the past 5 years. The source – Social map of Lithuania. INDICATORS * 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Number of residents 35032 35496 36131 36885 39476 Number of children for 1000 residents 178.12 179.63 183.7 189.05 198.8 Number of youth for 1000 residents 197.85 198.59 196.9 227.65 228.8 Number of retirement age residents for 252.34 252.96 252.7 252.49 231.5 1000 residents Number of disabled people, older than 18, 88.32 89.11 86 86.43 82.56 for 1000 residents Number of disabled children for 1000 33.49 34.19 29.8 28.54 24.59 children Number of persons declared their 10.19 10.11 9.5 5.2 14.16 departure abroad for 1000 residents Number of persons declared their arrival 6.34 6.79 6.6 5.07 3.77 from abroad for 1000 residents Number of pupils for 1000 residents n/d 116.9 121 126.9 134.44 Number of registered unemployed for n/d 118.16 110.35 122.49 120.98 1000 working-age residents Number of the youth, up to 25 years, n/d 25.09 36.45 47.39 48.02 registered unemployed for 1000 the youth Number of registered long-term n/d 13.5 17.12 15.26 25.63 unemployed for 1000 residents Municipal budget expenditure per capita, n/d n/d 2670 2618 2363 LTL 4 PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SPORTS SYSTEM AND ITS ADMINISTRATION Physical Culture and Sports System - it is natural persons and legal entities, developing human being in all physical education means a set of consistent and constant physical and spiritual possibilities of human development and health promotion Physical Culture and Sports System in Raseiniai district municipality include these activity domains: 1. Children and youth development of physical culture and sport; 2. The adults and disabled people physical education expansion; 3. The health enhancing physical activity popularising, support and promotion in the local communities; 4. The expansion and populiarization of the kinds of sports; 5. The great mastery sportsmen training. Physical education and sports and society's health strengthening activity coordination system's entities are: 1. Sportsmen, residents, taking part in sports activities 2. Physical education and sport‘s clubs 3. The municipality or its authorized institutions, budgetary institutions; 4. Physical education and sport‘s centre and the other educational institutions; 5. Society's health office; 6. Non-governmental organizations, youth organizations and informal groups, the private sector and the other organizations,which develop physical education and sports In accordance to the Lithuanian Physical Culture and Sports Act, Lithuania formulation and implementation of physical education and sports policy involved in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Government, the National Physical Culture and Sports Council, the Ministry of Physical Education and Sports Department, as well as municipalities. I. INSTITUTIONS AT NATIONAL LEVEL WHICH ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTIVITY COORDINATION'S FOR SOCIETY'S HEALTH STRENGTHENING AND THEIR FUNCTIONS Institutions at national level which are responsible for actions' coordination for physical activity for health enhancing and health's promotion are these : 1. The Seimas of Lithuanian Republic; 2. The Government of Lithuanian Republic; 3. Physical Education and Sports Council; 4. Department