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Induced demand in health care
Konečný, Martin ; Šťastný, Daniel (advisor) ; Svoboda, Miroslav (referee)
In this bachelor thesis are examined two hypotheses. The goal of the first hypothesis is to provide an evidence of physicians induced demand. This hypothesis is examined by regression analysis using fixed effects method. An assumption, that outpatient surgeons will provide less control checks when facing increased number of patients was confirmed. However, final effect is negligible. The goal of the second hypothesis is to amend paper Fuchs (1978) and find out, if better quality surgeons recommend less surgery. The results of the analysis indicate that this statement is true and Fuchs (1978) did not underestimate this effect.
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Health Care Reform in the United States of America
Keprta, Jan ; Maaytová, Alena (advisor) ; Blažek, Petr (referee)
This thesis analyzes the anticipated impact of the health reform steps which are currently being carried out in the United States of America. It describes the current US health care system and it states main reasons for the necessity of a reform. The individual reform steps included in the "Affordable care act" are described. Several global reform trends are described in this paper. Author analyzes possible outcomes of the current health care reform based on these trends.
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Pharmacoeconomics from the point of view of the interest groups
Pohlová, Martina ; Maaytová, Alena (advisor) ; Hartlová, Alena (referee)
This thesis deals with pharmacoeconomics and its application from the interest groups' active in the health care system point of view. Pharmacoeconomics is a relatively new scientific discipline, whose purpose is to facilitate the efficient allocation of scarce resources in the health care sector. The first chapter analyzes the trend of expenditure on health of the Czech Republic. The second chapter describes the question of pharmacoeconomic research. The third chapter discusses possible ways to use pharmacoeconomics by the interest groups.
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A NEW CONCEPT OF HEALTH CARE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN RELATION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Bouša, Ladislav ; Loužek, Marek (advisor) ; Krebs, Vojtěch (referee)
Thesis "A NEW CONCEPT OF HEALTH CARE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN RELATION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION "deals with health care in the Czech Republic. In the most economically developed countries health care is becoming a part of their health care policy. The diploma thesis reflects the health reform efforts in recent years of economic reality in the Czech Republic. The state acts as a guarantor, whose task is to regulate health care, establish legal and economic rules and thereby to ensure availability. Focus of the thesis is analytical and descriptive. The introductory chapter describes the health systems, the second focuses on the legal framework and then the third on the demographic and health status of the population. The focus of the work is in the fourth chapter, this chapter describes the economics of health policy, financing of individual groups, the fifth drug policy. Consistency of health care associated with the Czech Republic's accession to the EU, its principals and strategies are presented in the final chapter
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The health care - public or private goods
Havlíčková, Anna ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Durdisová, Jaroslava (referee)
The main of objective of this diploma thesis is to define health care as economic goods based on the theoretical definitions. The fact whether health care should be considered as private goods or public goods plays a vital role in this debate. The initial hypothesis presupposes that health care is (based on the basic economic criteria) private goods; however there is objective evidence demonstrating that health care should be understood in terms of public goods. The author defines the necessary terminology and theoretical concepts. According to several expert concepts the author concludes that based on the basic economic definitions health care could be understood as private goods, admitting that in the real world objective limitations exist, which prevent keeping health care exclusively in the economic sphere. The thesis also evaluates the role of individual health care sectors, including their drawbacks. The author demonstrates all concepts on the Czech health care system. In the analytic part of the thesis the author demonstrates discrepancies between theoretical concepts and practice on specific models, including the risks of exclusively private financing of health care. For this purpose three income groups has been defined. The author compares expenditures of these groups on selected medical services with different levels of their savings. The thesis also deals with methods of economical analysis and its limitations in health care system analysis.
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Veterinary Health Care
Knězová, Jana ; Lipka, David (advisor) ; Křížek, Josef (referee)
The increasing costs of health care is becoming one of the main problems of Czech health care. The state has become a constant tendency to enter the health system as a result and its interventions (regulations) influence the behavior of its actors. The regulation is in the eyes of the state solution that can cope with so-called market failures, but the result is damage to the entire health care system. Therefore health care could inspire in animal health care, where almost no government regulation (except law) and the system is based on market behavior.
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Reforma zdravotnictví v USA
Zemanová, Iva ; Lipka, David (advisor) ; Běláčková, Vendula (referee)
This thesis is concerned with US health care. It is focused especially on the health insurance market. It introduces basic characteristics of the US insurance system and discusses its main problems. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether voluntary private insurance is the main source of problems that the US health care system currently experiences. In order to do that, greatest deficiencies of US insurance policies, especially private ones, are identified based on the efficiency criterion. It is also briefly evaluated if identified deficiencies are going to be affected by the current health care reform.
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The informed consent procedure from the patients´ perspective
FRAŇKOVÁ, Květoslava
In 2001, the Czech Republic ratified the Convention on Biomedicine. This convention is based on a strategy of partnership between physician and patient. This strategy is being implemented by informing patients of their rights in health care. The patients who are adequately informed of the nature, purpose, risks and consequences of treatment may freely decide whether they want to undergo a treatment or not. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the legislation in force on the informed consent and its various aspects. The practical part gives a survey of the knowledge of the rights that result from the informed consent and the implementation of those rights into practice. The objective of this section is to determine the legal awareness of the issue of the informed consent, especially from the patients´ {--} citizens´ perspective. The hypothesis 1 assumes that respondents with higher education are better aware of their rights arising form the informed consent than respondents with lower education. Hypothesis 2 assumes that respondents with higher education better employ the rights derived form the informed consent than respondents with lower education. The investigation was conducted in citizens living, working or studying in České Budějovice. To verify the hypotheses the quantitative research, carried out through a questioning method using the questionnaire technique, was conducted. The objective was achieved. On the basis of obtained data that were evaluated in percentage terms, the hypothesis 1 was refuted and the hypothesis 2 was confirmed. The research outcomes show that knowledge of the rights arising from the informed consent is almost identical for both groups of respondents, but in practice these rights are being claimed more likely by respondents with higher education. These results showed the need of focusing attention on informing patients about the practical application of their rights arising form the informed consent.
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The possibility to apply the Leininger's model within the nursing care for homeless people
VLKOVÁ, Ludmila
The possibility to apply the Leininger's model within the nursing care for homeless people The thesis deals with the lifestyle of homeless people and subsequently also with the issue of nursing care for these people; such a care is a specific one due to their lifestyle. Next, the thesis works with the model by Madeleine Leininger, as well as with the model of Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth Davidhizar, which belongs to transcultural nursing sphere and is understood as the way how to overcome differences between the nursing subculture and homeless people subculture within the nursing process. Within the scope of the thesis, we have decided to research the possibility to apply the Leininger's model within the nursing care for homeless people, from the nurses' point of view, using the quantitative method, and the questionnaire technique. For the research purposes were set 5 goals: 1st Goal ? to find out what is the attitude of nurses to homeless people. 2nd Goal ? to inquire information from nurses related to the facts how is going the nursing care for homeless people. 3rd Goal ? to research, whether nurses from the selected hospitals may use the Leininger's model when nursing the homeless people. 4th Goal ? to make sure ourselves whether nurses are aware of the differences resulting from the lifestyle of homeless people. 5th Goal ? to search where, according to the opinion of nurses, are the homeless people going when leaving hospital to be ?home-nursed?. The goals were met. Hypothesis 1 ? that nurses appraise negatively the lifestyle of homeless people ? was proved. Hypothesis 2 ? that nursing care for homeless people is performed in the same way as in case of other clients ? was not proved. Hypothesis 3 ? that nurses of higher than secondary education do know the Leininger's model ? was proved. Hypothesis 4 ? that nurses consider the application of Leininger's model within the nursing care for homeless people useful ? was proved. Hypothesis 5 ? that nurses take into consideration differences in lifestyle of homeless people ? was proved. Hypothesis 6 ? that nurses do not know where the homeless people go when leaving hospitals to be ?home-nursed? ? was not proved. Analysing the gathered information there also resulted another Hypothesis 7 ? that nurses prefer application of the model by Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth Davidhizar prior to using the model by Madeleine Leininger within the nursing care for the homeless people; such a hypothesis was proved. However, I recommend a check of the hypothesis in the course of more goal-directed research. The output of the thesis related to the practice is the possibility to apply the found out findings in the nursing care for homeless people to minimize possible conflicts, as well as their application for the purposes of more respectable and purposeful work with the homeless people, which could be without any frustration feelings related to the given nursing care.
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