In the case of various emergencies, especially pandemics, healthcare workers are faced with disproportionate pressures. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting the psychological and physical health of healthcare workers. This interdisciplinary research aims to determine how changes in the physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 lockdown are related to work organization factors that support safety and stability. A quantitative research strategy was applied in the research. Data from an electronic survey assessed the changes in the physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers during the lockdown period and the organizational factors supporting safety and stability. The sample of the quantitative research consisted of 967 employees of healthcare institutions and pharmacies in Lithuania. This research broadens the concept of organizational factors and provides data on their interaction with the changes of employee well-being indicators in a pandemic situation. It was found that positive changes in the evaluation of physical as well as psychological well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown could be consistently predicted by all the analyzed safety and stability supporting organizational factors that were found to be associated with subjective physical well-being and psychological well-being even when adjusting for the effect of socio-demographic factors (gender, age, work field, and specialty). The identification and proper management of organizational factors was significant for the psychological and physical well-being of healthcare workers during the lockdown period. It was found that all estimates of safety and stability supporting organizational factors during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown were positively related and could act as protective factors to the subjective physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers.

Introduction:The Korean Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) medical team, mainly composed of graduates from first government certified international disaster support education course, deployed to Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010, and operated a medical relief mission. The present study was designed to evaluate the KDRT medical team mission in Haiti. Methods: Data were collected via an anonymous questionnaire that was distributed one day after the completion of the mission in Haiti. Questionnaires were composed of four categories. Results:The response rate for this survey was 72% (18/25). The KDRT members were relatively young, with 72% of personnel.

Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular events and death. A reduction in salt intake is among the most cost-effective strategies to reduce blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Increasing potassium lowers blood pressure and is associated with lower cardiovascular risk. Adequate iodine intake is important to prevent iodine deficiency disorders. Salt iodization is a key strategy to prevent such deficiency. In Lithuania, no surveys have been performed to directly assess sodium, potassium and iodine consumption. The aim of the present study was to measure sodium, potassium and iodine intake in a randomly selected adult Lithuanian adult population using 24 h urine collections, and to assess knowledge, attitudes and behavior towards salt consumption. Salt and potassium intakes were estimated in 888 randomly selected participants by 24 h urine sodium and potassium excretion and 679 individuals provided suitable 24 h urine samples for the analysis of iodine excretion. Average salt intake was 10.0 (SD 5.3) g/24 h and average potassium intake was 3.3 (SD 1.3) g/24 h. Only 12.5% of participants consumed less than 5 g/24 h of salt. The median value of urinary iodine concentration (UIC) was 95.5 μg/L. Our study showed that average salt intake is twice as high as the maximum level recommended by the World Health Organization while potassium and iodine intakes in Lithuania are below the recommended levels.

In 2017, Lithuania joined the global May Measurement Month (MMM) campaign which aims at raising awareness of raised blood pressure worldwide. Presented here are the data arising from the 2017, 2018, and 2019 campaigns. An opportunistic cross-sectional survey of individuals aged ≥18 years was carried out in Lithuania in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Two thousand nine hundred and nineteen participants were recruited in the MMM campaigns in response to the media engagement and interactions with the study team. The mean age of participants was 46.1 years (SD 16.3) years, 58.9% were females. Blood pressures were measured using electronic devices provided by Omron according to the MMM protocol. Of the 2919 screened participants, 1308 (44.8%) had hypertension. Of all hypertensive participants, the awareness rate, the treatment rate, and the control rates (<140/90 mmHg) were 79.5%, 41.0%, and 14.2%, respectively. Of those on antihypertensive medication, the control rate was 34.8%. The high percentage of participants with hypertension was either untreated (59.0%) or treated but uncontrolled (65.2%) suggests the usefulness of such screening programmes to improve awareness of hypertension control in Lithuania.

Visame pasaulyje didėja susirūpinimas ne tik dėl klimato kaitos pasekmių, kurios pasireiškia dažnėjančiomis ir aštrėjančiomis gamtinėmis ekstremaliosiomis situacijomis. Didžiulį susirūpinimą kelia ir kintama geopolitinė situacija, todėl dažnėja kariniai konfliktai, teroristiniai išpuoliai, didėja pabėgėlių srautas į Europos šalis. Šiame kontekste per ateinančius metus ir dešimtmečius svarbiausia bus gebėti efektyviai prisitaikyti prie greitai kintančio pasaulio ir tinkamai pasirengti grėsmėms, galimai kylančioms valstybei ir žmonėms. Tyrimai rodo, kad galimai traumuojamieji įvykiai, tokie kaip, karai, gamtinės ir technologinės katastrofos bei ekonominės krizės turi neigiamų psichologinių pasekmių. Traumuojamųjų įvykių poveikis turi savybę kauptis. Užsitęsę traumuojamieji įvykiai sukelia ypač neigiamas pasekmes tiek fizinei, tiek psichinei sveikatai. Todėl siektinas tikslas-sustiprinti visuomenės socialinį atsparumą, kad tokios visuomenės gebėtų neutralizuoti bet kokio sukrėtimo poveikį ir laiku atsigauti po jo. Šio straipsnio tikslas-atlikus mokslinės literatūros ir praktinių pavyzdžių analizę, pagrįsti pirmosios psichologinės pagalbos teikimo principų svarbą ir pateikti siūlymus siekiant didinti socialinį atsparumą ekstremalių įvykių kontekste. Atlikta analizė patvirtina, kad įvairios psichologinės intervencijos yra efektyvios siekiant išvengti psichikos sveikatos sutrikimų ir gydant ankstyvąsias trauminio streso reakcijas. Kaip priimtiniausia intervencijos forma po traumuojamųjų įvykių rekomendauojama pirmoji psichologinė pagalba. Pagrindiniai šios inter-3