ŽMOGIŠKOJO KAPITALO IŠTEKLIŲ TAUPYMAS DARNIOS PLĖTROS KONTEKSTE: VARIANTŲ PAIEŠKOS

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of preservation of human capital resources in the context of sustainable development the content of which has considerably changed over the last 50 years. The idea of sustainable development that originated as a must, as a preventive measure against the implementation of fast economic growth at the expense of the quality of environment, covered all the areas of social life, including a significant issue of the sustainable human capital development, its rational use, and conservation. Next to positive processes, we witness the activities which contradict the conception of the sustainable society development: the social policy implemented by the state tends to increase, instead of decreasing, the number of people living in poverty and fails to comply to the current situation. In the area of the health care policy, the reforms continuing to present have been increasing the number of people for whom medical services are becoming inaccessible; the diseases successfully cured for over half a century are becoming incurable. One of those diseases is tuberculosis (TB) which became a threat in Lithuania: due to the poverty of a part of the population and the indecisiveness of the legislative and executive powers in the application of relevant preventive measures, drug-resistant TB forms are spreading, and Lithuania faces a potential threat of epidemic. The article deals with the social-political aspects of the human capital preservation in the field of health care and analyzes the current situation and the opportunities of its improvement. KEY WORDS: sustainable development, human capital, incidence, prevalence, health care.