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Depression development and social inequalities during the period after COVID-19 outbreak in the population aged 50 years and more
Dolečková, Kateřina ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Dalecká, Andrea (referee)
Kateřina Dolečková: Vznik deprese a sociální nerovnosti v období po vypuknutí pandemie COVID-19 u populace ve věku 50 let a více Depression development and social inequalities during the period after COVID-19 outbreak in the population aged 50 years and more Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on health of many individuals, in particular the elderly. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the development of depression following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in a European population aged 50 years and more in context of social inequalities. A total of 11 648 SHARE study participants were analyzed (55,2 % female, mean age 69,5 years). The development of depression was examined based on the occurrence of respondents' subjective feelings of sadness or depression after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the occurrence of these feelings before the pandemic outbreak. Significant factors influencing the development of depression, which were identified using the method of binary logistic regression, included sociodemographic characteristics, health and healthcare-related indicators, as well as social indicators. The development of depression varied also based on the respondent's country of residence, which was determined by the multilevel modelling. Key words: mental health,...
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Social determinants and health perception of selected groups of immigrants
Chmelařová, Tereza ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Hnilicová, Helena (referee)
Social determinants and health perception of selected groups of immigrants Abstract With the increasing number of migrants arriving in the Czech Republic, it is very important to deal with their health and health related factors. The aim of this thesis is to emphasize migrants' health and expand the knowledge in the area of health perception and social determinants of health among selected groups of migrants based on previously collected data from questionnaire surveys. The data were collected by the Geographic Migration Centre's research team and have already been analysed and subsequently published. However, mainly the migration behaviour was analysed without a focus on health and its determinants. This analysis is based on data of 284 Moldovans living in the Czech Republic and Italy which were collected in 2017-2018; data of 252 Ukrainian migrants from 2012; data of 682 Vietnamese and Ukrainian migrants from 2013. Health perception is characterized by the variable self-rated health. By using binary logistic regression and ordinal regression methods there were revealed significant determinants of health perception, including socio-demographic characteristics (such as gender, age, education, and marital status), spending time with people in the host country, language proficiency, income, and financial...
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Epidemiological Analysis of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Czechia
Sekera, Jan Carlos ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Pikhart, Hynek (referee) ; Rob, Filip (referee)
Sexually transmitted infections are among the diseases that are showing an increase and pose significant health problems, especially among the young population. They directly impact sexual reproductive health through stigma, infertility, cancer and pregnancy complications and can increase the risk of HIV. The dissertation focuses on the epidemiological situation of sexually transmitted infections in the Czech Republic. It seeks to supplement the missing data on this group of diseases and thus contribute by analysis to a better understanding of the development and current state in the Czech Republic. The work is conceived as a set of articles. Within the dissertation, the author introduces the context of his professional focus within the field of knowledge through published studies. The published studies that make up this dissertation focused on four critical areas of the issue of sexually transmitted infections: health literacy, socio-demographic analysis of injecting drug users, HIV testing at the time of the pandemic and regional differences The first set of included papers analysed HIV/AIDS health literacy levels. Knowledge of inequalities in health literacy is a crucial prerequisite for applying preventive measures. The second of the enrolled studies focused on analysing sexually transmitted...
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Potential migration of medical students with special regard to the influence of institutions versus family and other personal networks
Šimůnek, Michal ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (referee)
International migration and recruitment of medical staff are receiving increasingly higher levels of attention. Especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, which broke out at the beginning of 2020, has brought attention to the global shortage of medical practitioners. Czechia has insufficient numbers of medical doctors and the country's age distribution for the profession is inadequate. Hence, within the Czech healthcare system, the migration of medical practitioners abroad is considered a relatively critical issue, particularly concerning young doctors and recent medical graduates. This diploma thesis examines the potential migration of medical students focusing on the influence of institutions as opposed to familial or other personal networks; these fulfil an important role in relation to the patterns of migration. The goal is to determine the probability of medical students' intention to migrate abroad for work. The thesis also aims to establish to what extent this migration is realistic. Part of the research focuses on the study of other selected characteristics, such as motives for leaving, length of migration, target destinations, or barriers that inhibit the move abroad. The aims of the study are analysed using a quantitative method based on answers to a self- developed semi-structured...
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Regional variability of mortality level on death causes suggestible by health care
Procházka, Martin ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Lustigová, Michala (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to chart regional variability of mortality using the concept of avoidable mortality which occured in order to compare the differences in the level of health care and consequential mortality. Health care is one of the factors which affects mortality. Since the 1970's the concept of avoidable mortality has passed long developement which is described in the theoretical part as well. Methodology concept of avoidable mortality was subsequently used throughout the Czech Republic for the period from 2006- 2012 and in individual districts and regions from 2006 to 2010. The main chapter of the diploma thesis is based on the results of this analysis. The aim of this diploma thesis is to demonstrate through the selected indicators of health care their impact on different levels of avoidable mortality. Key words: avoidable mortality, regional variability in mortality, ischemic heart disease, nationa screening program, healthcare system
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Self-rated health in geo-demographic context
Láchová, Jitka ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Holub, Jiří (referee)
Master thesis tries to analyze self-rated health in the Czech Republic during the period of transformation. In total, individual data for 7827 respondents from three health interview surveys (years 1996, 2002 and 2008), were analyzed. Significant improvement of self-rated health status in the Czech population was identified. Factors as gender, age, education, economic activity, physical activity, body mass index and social contacts were confirmed as influencing factors of self-rated health in the Czech population. Significant results were found also for marital status, smoking and alcohol consumption, but opposite trends for different age groups were noticed. Eating habits and rural vs. urban differences do not significantly influence self-assessing health. Regional differences in self-rated health were not found in the Czech Republic at NUTS III level. Keywords: self-rated health, influencing factors of self-rated health, regional differences, transformation
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The Czech Banat - a dying community or a region with prosperous future?
Blümelová, Iva ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Freidingerová, Tereza (referee)
The Czech Banát is an area in Romania where a populous Czech community lives in six typically Czech villages. It has preserved the Czech language, traditions, customs and the way of living for more than 180 years. After the change of the political regime in 1989 many inhabitants have abandoned these villages for Romanian cities or have returned back to the Czech Republic. This research deals with the history of settlement, the development of the size of the population, ways of a living and education in these villages. Based on research made in schools, the opinions and views of the young generation about their future life were explored. Because of the importance of the aid provided by the Czech Republic to this area, it is dealt with in an independent chapter. In the last section, the future of this community threatened by re-emigration is discussed.
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Socioeconomic and Spatial Determinants of Occupational Diseases in the Automotive Industry in Czechia
Jarolímek, Jan ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Blažek, Jiří (referee) ; Nakládalová, Marie (referee)
Health and reducing disparities in health between and within countries are among the principal global sustainable development objectives for the period 2016-2030. The incidence of Occupational Diseases (OD) is characterized by very distinct differentiation, both regional and sectoral, and has considerable dynamics in time and place. Given that Czechia is at the top among all EU member states in terms of employment in the automotive industry and production of new vehicles, new research on OD in the automotive industry acquires importance. The Ph.D. Thesis is conceived as an ecological correlation study focusing on the study of the determinants of OD in automotive industry. Its own core work is to analyze 32,646 cases of OD (in the past 20 years) and a set of data from a survey of 247 companies of the automotive industry (employing nearly 110,000 employees, i.e. 78 % of the economically active population working in this sector). In the present work are used available data from routine statistics, data from registers and basic sanitation data from a questionnaire survey. The study innovatively links research of Global production networks and medical-geographical approach. At the end of the Ph.D. Thesis, specific outcomes for praxis and discusses possible topics for further research in this area are...
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Asthma In Children's Population and the Enviromental Factors In Selected Towns of the Czech Republic
Fiala, Josef ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Kazmarová, Helena (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to give information about asthmatic disease, to evaluate the situation in Czech children's population and to analyze the impacts of selected environmental factors on the occurrence of the bronchial asthma in selected age group. In the first part of this thesis are the information about bronchial asthma. In the second part of this thesis are description of the data of selected children group and characteristics of the environment (the source of data was from Czech National Health Institute). There are verifications of the null hypotheses about the risk effect of the environmental factors on the occurrence of the bronchial asthma among 5-years-old children in selected towns of the Czech Republic. The selected towns are České Budějovice, Hodonín, Hradec Králové, Jablonec nad Nisou, Jihlava, Karviná, Kladno, Mělník, Most, Olomouc, Sokolov, Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Orlicí and Žďár nad Sázavou.
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