Stress is an element of each human's life and an indicator of its quality. Thermal mineral waters have been used empirically for the treatment of different diseases for centuries. Aim of the Study. To investigate the effects of highly mineralised geothermal water balneotherapy on distress and health risk. Methodology. A randomized controlled clinical trial was performed with 130 seafarers: 65 underwent 2 weeks of balneotherapy with 108 g/L full-mineralisation bath treatment; the others were in control group. The effect of distress was measured using the General Symptoms Distress Scale. Factorial and logistic regression analyses were used for statistical analysis. Results. A significant positive effect on distress (P < 0.001) was established after 2 weeks of treatment: the number of stress symptoms declined by 60%, while the intensity of stress symptoms reduced by 41%, and the control improved by 32%. Health risks caused by distress were reduced, and resources increased, whereas the probability of general health risk decreased by 18% (P = 0.01). Conclusion. Balneotherapy with highly mineralised geothermal water reduces distress, by reducing the health risk posed by distress by 26%, increasing the health resources by 11%, and reducing probability of general health risk by 18%. Balneotherapy is an effective preventive tool and can take a significant place in integrative medicine.

Soil of military grounds is often polluted with heavy metals. Their concentrations may be dosens of times higher in polluted regions. The affected soils are permeable, so the pollutions can get into water and spread to the environment. Into human and animal organisms they can get with food and water. Heavy metals are very dangerous for people's health, and we must know their accumulation places, intensity of scatter and integral risk for health. The purpose of this work was to establish links between zones polluted with heavy metals and morbidity caused by pollution with heavy metals. The morbidity caused by heavy metals (Pb, Cu, Zn, Ca and other) in the polluted regions is 1.4-1.5 times higher for adults and teenagers and 1.5-3.9 times higher for children aged under 14 years than the mean morbidity of the same diseases in Lithuania. Hypothetically, it is possible to prognosticate that this problem will grow in future because the ratio of the newly registered and the existing cases of morbidity for children aged under 14 years is 1.3-1.5 times higher than for adults.

Parkinson‘s disease is a neurodegenerative disease, which damages the dopaminergic, cholinergic, serotonergic neurons and their interconnections. Diagnosis is clinical and based on the patient‘s complaints, medical history and data of clinical examination. It is a chronic, progressive disease, which sooner or later leads to disability. The study covered 121 person suffering from Parkinson‘s disease, 54 (44, 6%) men and 67 (55, 4%) women among them. The average age of patients was 67, 91 ± 10.98 (95% CI 65.10 - 70.73), males - 67.10 ± 17.11 (95% CI 62.77 - 71.44), 68.62 ± 10.76 for women (95% CI 64.74 - 72.50). We aimed to study the situation of persons suffering from Parkinson‘s disease, who are under complete or almost complete dependence, according to identification of special needs (care or nursing). As it was found, only half of patients: 16 ones (13.2%), with the condition assessed by Barthel Index as completely or almost completely dependent status, have identified specific needs - care. While the other 17 (14%) patients who were nailed to the bed, could not move at all, change in body position, even eat without help, had not been established nursing care. Some patients told that they did not even know about such a possibility, because nobody give them any informatic on about it. Since they can not walk, get to the clinic by themselves, a family doctor is called in to the house only if other conditions (fever or suspected infection) occure, nobody recommended them ask for special needs and care setting.

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Nearly half of the patients reported being dependent on others and a quarter of patients were in definite need for that. The functional impairment is the most important risk factor, although identifying the group using joint stabilization measures routinely may be of practical value in order to define the risk group which may need the external help in future.