1. Survey of Professional Qualification and Career Trajectories of Lithuanian Public Health Managers Prof. Dr. Leonardas Rinkevicius Juozas Petronis, MSc student Department of Sociology, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

2. The aims of survey and study: Analysing professional qualification and career trajectories of the managers of Lithuanian public health institutions Creating a directory and a yearbook of managers of Lithuanian public health institutions Using collected information about the executive staff of health care institutions for:  Improvement of MSc studies in public health management;  Creating expert data base for public policy research in the field of health management.

3. Research Method – questionnaire-based mailed survey

4. The survey process : Questionnaires distributed to all members of the Lithuanian Public Health Managers Society Initial No of respondents: 210; after up-dating the list, there were 74 obsolete data items deleted from the list; and 46 new members (respondents) added. 119 filled out questionnaries received Response rate 65,4%

5. Survey conducted in 2002 in the framework of the Kaunas Regional Public Health Observatory Sponsored by:  The French National School of Public Health (Rennes)  Kaunas University of Medicine  Kaunas University of Technology  Kaunas Public Health Center  Kaunas County Administration

6. The survey results

19. Ačiū! Thanks for your attention!