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The European Commission as an actor during the crises solutions
Čermák, Miroslav ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
More than ten years after the largest economic crisis, which stroke the European Union in 2008 and thoroughly tested its readiness and ability to act, Europe was hit by a global pandemic of COVID-19. Because of this crisis, the European Union and its institutions faced a number of challenges, stemming from unprecedented measures imposed to tackle it. In contrast with the economic crisis, it was not only the European industrial and financial sectors but also more segments, essential to the functioning of the European Union itself, which were affected by the recent crisis. The aim of this thesis is to point out the differences of impacts of the two crisis and to find out the role played by the European Commission during the process of dealing with them.
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Substance use by clients of the outreach program NO BIOHAZARD during the COVID 19 pandemic
Nováková, Tereza ; Chomynová, Pavla (advisor) ; Černíková, Tereza (referee)
The objective of this bachelor thesis is to map the patterns of substance abuse among clients of the outreach program No biohazard. The work aims to find out how and whether these patterns of use changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the Czech Republic in early March 2020. Due to the global breadth of the pandemic, impacts and restrictions have affected almost all areas of human functioning. One of these areas was also the drug market. This study addresses how the restrictions associated with the pandemic affected the availability, price and quality of substances used among clients and whether during the pandemic the interest of outreach program clients in professional assistance such as treatment or counseling or substitution treatment increased. Research questions also ask about the availability of clean injection material and outreach programs during a pandemic. The study results serve as feedback on the functioning of the field program during the pandemic. I collected data for the purposes of the bachelor's thesis in a questionnaire survey among clients of the outreach program from March to June 2021. For the purposes of the survey, I created a questionnaire containing 23 questions focusing on current patterns of substance use and drug market changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. I...
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Populism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Latin America: A Case study of Brazil
Ernst, Luna Antonella ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Institute of Political Science Department of Geopolitical Studies Master's Thesis Populism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Latin America: A Case Study of Brazil Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic confronted the world with a global health crisis like never before. Unlike some countries which were able to manage the crisis with little loss, some countries failed. This thesis offers an extensive analyses Brazil's Covid-19 response with a primary focus on President Bolsonaro's populist nature. It aims to discover a correlation between the political leadership style of populism and poor Covid-19 management in Brazil. In order to accomplish that, the two concepts of medical populism and the performance of crisis have been applied to the case study, by investigating Bolsonaro's social media presence and public statements. The results displayed that Bolsonaro attempted to perform a crisis by simplifying the crisis and propagating his performance, but untimely failed to successfully perform the crisis. In addition, the results also indicate that Bolsonaro exercised medical populism by attempting to pit the people against the establishment and creating a dramatic and spectacular depiction of a public health crisis. Ultimately, the research will conclude that Bolsonaro's...
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The role of video app Zoom and its influence on users during the COVID-19
Pavlíková, Eliška ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on early beginnings of a video conferencing platform Zoom, its development and enormous rise during the global pandemic of COVID-19 disease, and on its influence on users. It focuses particularly on millennials who are already familiar with this kind of technology. The aim of this work is primarily to determine the effects of Zoom, as a video conferencing platform, on user's activities because they were used to perform them in a physical contact with other people. However, due to restrictions resulting from epidemiological measures, participants were forced to move their activities to the online environment. The thesis focuses on answering these research questions: How do people's behaviour, perception of the situation and their self-presentation change when using Zoom in comparison to a face-to-face meeting? How have the activities of users changed while using Zoom, due to COVID-19, namely March to December 2020? How and for what reasons do users use Zoom? How do users perceive Zoom's affordances? In order to answer these questions, qualitative research was conducted using semi-structured in-depth interviews. These were attended by ten respondents who regularly use Zoom for a certain activity that was carried out in personal before the pandemic. Respondents were millennials,...
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Risk management in retirement homes with regard to COVID-19 pandemic
Vouche Zámečníková, Aneta ; Vrzáček, Petr (advisor) ; Hradcová, Dana (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on risk management in retirement homes and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the risk management in retirement homes. The aim of this thesis is to describe how risks are managed in retirement homes. The first sub-objective is to identify similarities and differences in risk management in different organizations and the second sub- objective is to examine whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected risk management in the organizations. In the theoretical part, we describe the role of retirement homes in the context of social services. We also focus on the COVID-19 and the course of COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech republic and in the retirement homes. In the last chapter of this part we present risk management and its role in organization. Three organizations participated in the qualitative research. Through in-depth interviews with managers and documentation analysis, the risk management practices in these organizations are described. Based on the statements of managers, recommendations were formulated for managers in retirement homes on how to improve the organisational risk management.
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Seasonality of Selected Demographic Events in the Czech Republic after 1950
Procházková, Kateřina ; Rychtaříková, Jitka (advisor) ; Kalibová, Květa (referee)
Seasonality of Selected Demographic Events in the Czech Republic after 1950 Abstract This thesis is focusing on seasonality of marriages, live births, induced abortions, spontaneous abortions, deaths and suicides in the Czech Republic in the period of 1950-2019. The thesis also describes several factors, which affect the seasonality of these events. The data is analyzed according to individual months in each year. Furthermore, the period is divided into decades which are described in more detail. Seasonality of live births, induced abortions and suicides is also analyzed with focus on particular day of the week. Seasonality of marriages is influenced mainly by social and cultural factors, legislations changes and traditions. The seasonality of live births is influenced by bioclimatic, energetic and social factors. The seasonality of induced abortions is influenced by the time of conception and operation of medical facilities. Seasonality of deaths is influenced by bioclimatic and sociodemographic factors. Suicides are combination of bioclimatic and social factors. Moreover, the thesis analyzes the changes in seasonality of some demographic events that happened in the pandemic year of 2020. Key words: seasonality, causes affecting seasonality, marriages, live births, induced abortions, spontaneous abortions,...
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Changes in communication strategies among people with hearing disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Kamienová, Barbora ; Hradilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Hádková, Kateřina (referee)
The bachelor thesis is focused on individuals with hearing impairment and changes in their communication since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived and consequential safety measures were imposed. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. In the theoretical part, the terminology and areas, which are necessary in order to understand the given issue, are defined. The first chapter is mostly concerned with defining hearing, hearing impairment and various approaches to people with hearing impairment. The second chapter introduces a general view on interpersonal communication, particular communication characteristics of people with hearing impairment and choices they have which can help them communicating with the rest of the society. The third chapter describes a situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety measures which may have had an adverse impact on individuals with hearing impairment. The main goal of the practical part is to find out whether the communication of people with hearing impairment changed in regard to the pandemic and in what circumstances it may have been so. Other research inquiries are focused on usability and reliability of services providing support for people with HI. These are attempting to find out whether the services are more necessary than...
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The Economics of Face Masks: application of VSL's controversy and GDP's critique on the case of the Czech face masks sewing initiative and its value estimation
Malá, Markéta ; Schwarz, Jiří (advisor) ; Havránková, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis describes the economic context of the face masks sewing initiative in the Czech Republic (the prompt and extensive help of volunteers with tackling the face masks' shortage during the COVID-19 pandemics) and attempts to estimate its economic value. Even in the most conservative scenario that assumes efficacy of face masks to be only 8 %, the results suggest that the initiative still created lower units of billions CZK in economic value as a result of contributing to the prevention of 6,290 - 18,825 infections, 1,006 - 3,012 hospitalizations and 95 - 284 deaths only within the first month. If we assume 20 % masks efficacy, the initiative's value equals to 1 - 9 % of the Czech monthly GDP .
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