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Problems of the Managed Care
Čížová, Ludmila ; Lešetický, Ondřej (advisor) ; Střítecký, Rudolf (referee)
The main theme of the thesis is managed care system description and definition. The first part is focused on managed care history, development in this system, and types of organizations providing this medical and hospital services. There is also chapter concerned with problems of resource management and managed care quality. The next chapter describes medical and health services and managed care in the USA, the only country offering these services in free mareket economy. For comparison in the next chapter there are presented someEuropean states, which try to introduce managed care as a tool for reduction of redundant and duplicate health services costs, include Czech Republic. At the conclusion, the comparison of some economic indicator of medical and health services among some European contries and the USA has been done.

The Effect of Personal Causality Orientation on Adherence in Outpatient Physiotherapy
Kuta, Igor ; Niederlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Hrachovinová, Tamara (referee)
(in English) This master thesis deals with themes of motivations and compliance to treatment recommendations in outpatient physiotherapy. In the theoretical section it brings an introduction to the issue of adherence as a part of medical rehabilitation. It sheds some light on the importance of the research in this field and structures its span according to prescribed diagnoses and other criteria. It also shows distinctions in concepts of compliance, concordance and adherence and summarizes the findings of the most relevant directions of motivation research in this area of study. The aim of the empirical part is to capture relations between the distribution of patients' personal causality orientation and their adherence to treatment. Based on the results of a DOPO method, self-assessment of adherence and evaluation of adherence by the treating physiotherapist, from the sample of 69 patients it concludes, that there is no statistically significant relation between the aforementioned variables.