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PubMed2005

[Health resorts and development of the health resort medicine in Lithuania].

Lithuanian health resorts are national resources of this country. Body hardening, health promotion, disease prevention and rehabilitation by means of applying natural factors are linked for centuries with the names of health resorts such as Druskininkai and Birstonas. The effect of natural factors is multiplex and depends on many parameters the study of which in concrete health resorts is indispensable in order to individualize the treatment at the health resorts and avoid undesirable side effects. As the contingent of the patients being referred to the sanatoria is changing--the number of severe patients after acute disorders and traumas is increasing constantly--the need of such studies becomes relevant. However, after renewal of independence of Lithuania in 1990, the policy of health resort development on the national scale has not been carried out yet. Besides, the number of localities that aim for becoming health resorts is increasing, however, such localities often do not meet the required criteria. The article reviews the status of health resorts and their localities together with their regulations in Lithuania, their development, specificity, the effects of the health resort natural factors (climatotherapy, balneotherapy, pelotherapy) on the healthy body and patients. The data are presented on the development of research studies concerning health resorts and main trends of health resort medicine: health promotion, prevention of disorders, early health resort rehabilitation, health resort tourism, treatment and health resort etiology. Possibilities of revival of studies concerning the effects of health resort factors on the rehabilities are discussed.

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PubMed2000

[Characteristics of the elderly transferees in a resort area from metropolitan areas: comparison to the elderly in a rural non-resort area and in a metropolitan area].

PURPOSES: This study examines characteristics of elderly transferees in a resort area who moved from metropolitan areas, comparing them to two groups: elderly living in a rural non-resort area and elderly living in a metropolitan area. METHODS: Both the resort area and the non-resort area were located in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture. The metropolitan area was in Nerima ward, Tokyo. From each area, 400, 400 and 600 random samples aged 65 and over were selected for face-to-face interview surveys separately. The number of the effective samples in each of the three groups was 176 (excluding transferees from rural area), 267, and 423, respectively. Characteristics were measured from five aspects; demographic aspects, health status, health habits, social networks, and social support. RESULTS: Almost indicators of health status did not show significant differences between respondents living in the resort area and each of the remaining two groups. Respondents living in the resort area were significantly less likely to attend community groups than those living in non-resort rural areas, and they also were less likely to have a home physician or persons who provided care. CONCLUSIONS: Transferees living in a resort area who moved from metropolitan areas may have extra health and welfare needs, compared to the elderly living in non-resort rural areas or the elderly living in metropolitan areas. Possible reasons for these extra needs may be relate to their urbanized life style, lower amount of medical resources in a rural area, or lower level of informal support possessed within a household.

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PubMed2001

Prospective controlled evaluation of the influence of an excursion to a health resort on medical students' opinion about chances for outpatient rehabilitation at a health resort.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the influence of an excursion to a health resort on students' opinion on the chances for outpatient rehabilitation at a health resort for cardiac and rheumatic diseases. METHODS: A group of 17 medical students went on a 1-day excursion to Bad Orb (near Frankfurt/M.) where mainly patients with heart diseases are treated. Another group of 44 students went on a 5-day excursion to Bad Gastein (Austria) where mainly patients with rheumatic diseases are treated. Before and after the excursion students completed a questionnaire asking their opinion on the chances for outpatient rehabilitation at a health resort for acute and chronic cardiac and rheumatic diseases. RESULTS: Students judged the chances for beneficial effects of outpatient rehabilitation at a health resort for chronic rheumatic diseases to be significantly better after the excursion to Bad Gastein than before, whereas there was no difference after the excursion to Bad Orb. CONCLUSION: Students' opinion of chances for outpatient rehabilitation at a health resort can be influenced by an excursion to a spa, but a single 1-day excursion may not be sufficient.

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PubMed2002

Tourism and the market revolution. [Review of: Lewis, CM. Ladies and gentlemen on display: planter society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001; Corbett, T. The Making of American resorts: Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, Lake George; Sterngass, J. First resorts: pursuing pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island. Baltiremore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001].

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PubMed1990

[Health resorts--dissatisfaction with health resorts].

An efficient medical rehabilitation is an important part of a modern health care system. There should be no doubts about its necessity. The medical rehabilitative system in Germany however, as it is organized by the sick-insurances and the annuity-insurances, does not fulfil all the claims urgently required. Much criticism seems really correct: the missing scientific basis of rehabilitation, the poor flexibility around the administrative procedures of application and performance, which is inadequate to medical needs, the nearly total absence of any negative selective criteria on the one hand and the huge problems in finding out those persons badly needing rehabilitative measures on the other, and last not least the uncertainty regarding the real economic benefits of the total enterprise of rehabilitation as it is actually practised.

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