Non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Lithuania are new juridical subjects in its sovereign society, a new expression of the civic community. As there is no any detailed and classified data base made for the Lithuanian NGO yet, it is difficult to find out what organizations are engaged in health promotion, and to determine the effect of this activity on the Lithuanian health service sector and how NGO programmes and services complement the governmental sector’s activities. Aim of the study: Evaluation of the structure, functions and the role in public health promotion of the existing Lithuanian NGO. Objectives: 1. To determine the functions, work scope and finance principles of the health NGO. 2. To evaluate the sociodemographic characteristics of the managers of health and other NGO, their knowledge and awareness concerning the national health policy, the value of public health promotion for the region population. 3. To define the involvement of the health NGO in the formation of the public health policy. 4. To explore the cooperation of the health NGO with other NGO, offices, partners. Methods. Questionnaires filled by the existing Lithuanian organizations and their managers. 409 questionnaires were sent by post. 157 answers were received. It means a very low activity of the respondents. Inquiry by post was made twice. The first inquiry by random sampling of 200 organizations resulted in only 84 answers (42% of all questionnaires... [to full text]