Project “Development and Implementation of the Child Health Monitoring Information System for Systematic Monitoring of the Children’s Health Condition and Purposeful Health Policy Making” contract was signed

Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania announces that on 9 June 2014 the trilateral Project “Development and Implementation of the Child Health Monitoring Information System for Systematic Monitoring of the Children’s Health Condition and Purposeful Health Policy Making” contract was signed.

Project code – NOR-LT11-SAM-01-TF-01-001.

Project promoter – Institute of Hygiene.

Amount of grant assistance and co-financing is 1 770 540,00 Eur (6 113 320,51 Lt).

Project objective is to develop the child health monitoring information system (hereinafter – CHM IS) and implement it for systematic monitoring of the children’s health condition and purposeful health policy making. CHM IS is intended for the analysis of preventive child health check-up and morbidity data by ensuring access to health data to a wider circle of specialists at the national and municipal levels and ensuring the protection of personal data. The data collected in the CHM IS will be useful for formation and implementation of health policy, for planning and implementation of effective preventive measures and for improving quality of public health services. After implementing the Project developed CHM IS will allow to monitor the country's school-age population health status changes, and children‘s health improvement decisions will be taken on the basis of objective and complete data collected in the CHM IS.