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The policy of mental health care in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from the perspective of historical institutionalism
Rizikyová, Tímea ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Kopsa Těšinová, Jolana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide the reader with a comprehensive view of institutional developments in the area of mental health policy in the two compared countries - the Czech Republic and Slovakia. These countries have a long history, and their health policies were based on the same foundations. This determined their different direction also in the area of mental health policies, the effective setting of which is today more important than ever before. The available global and national statistics point to alarming numbers in the area of mental illness, lack of staff and capacity and insufficient financial resources devoted to this area. Based on historical institutionalism and its concepts, I present identification of the reasons why both countries stagnated in the area of mental health policies for a long time and what were the critical junctures behind the change of institutional settings of mental health care policies to their present form. In the final part of the thesis, I compare these political settings, I identify the main similarities and differences, and also, I formulate the most problematic areas of the current mental health care systems. Since the Czech Republic started to implement the reform of psychiatric care several years ago and Slovakia is still waiting for this phase, the...
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Comparison of social policy in relation to informal caregivers of the elderly in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Rizikyová, Tímea ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Čampulková, Jitka (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the comparison of social policies in relation to informal caregivers of seniors in two countries - the Czech and Slovak Republics. At the beginning, the author brings a current view of the aging population, with which the demand for long- term care is constantly increasing. The author further focuses mainly on the description and subsequent comparison of policy design in relation to family carers in both republics, while looking at the whole issue by applying the theoretical concept of social constructions of target populations. The author identified and placed great emphasis on two target populations, namely the informal carers and the seniors who are dependent on care. Both target populations have a certain political power and social construct in the compared countries, which further influences their position in society. With the help of expert interviews, the author also identifies several problem areas that informal carers struggle with on the basis of the current setting of social policies in both countries.
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