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Patient Rights in Health Care
KOLÍNOVÁ, Eliška
Although the health care in the Czech Republic is widely available and it is provided often on a high level, there is still a problem in medical facilities to keep a dignity of hospitalized people or their relatives. Particularly patients´ personal rights are often violated. Also, psychological dimensions of a treatment are often underestimated, which is most evident at the most vulnerable groups of hospitalized patients, such as minors, women in labour or dying people. If doctors violate their duties, only a small number of patients are seeking a justice in the court, either from a fear from financial costs of the litigation or a public stigmatization. At present, there might be a turning point in this situation. As of 1st April 2012 Act No. 372/2011 Coll., on the provision of health services, was adopted, that highly emphasises the patients´ right. The aim of the thesis was to summarize a current legislation to the given issue, to map knowledge of patients´ rights in the general public and to find out whether the rights are respected by the medical staff. The chosen method was a method of the quantitative research, a technique of a questionnaire survey. There was designed a questionnaire that ascertained a public awareness of patients´ rights, a process of instructions for patients and a provision of an agreement with the provided care. Respondents were inhabitants of the South Bohemian region older than 18 years. The research shows that respondents know their rights related to the provision of the health care especially in relation to the informed consent. However they consider the medical staff´s instructions to be insufficient. The research results proved that it is still necessary to put an emphasis on the education of the medical staff in the area of instructions for the patients on their health conditions and the care provided, on requirements of the informed consent, the way how to give instructions etc. It is necessary to encourage patients not to be afraid to say their doctor that they do not understand his/her way of the instructions on the intervention, to find a common consensus between patients´ and medical professionals´ demands.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child {--} Monitoring of Informedness in the Public
KOLÍNOVÁ, Eliška
Convention on the Rights of a Child came into being on November 20, 1989, when it was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation (UNO). It became to be legally valid on September 2, 1990. On September 30, 1990 the world summit for children in New York took place and on this occasion, the then Czech and Slovak Federative Republic joined this Convention on the Rights of a Child. This international document in our country came into legal effect on Febr. 6, 1991. The children{\crq}s rights committee of UNO criticises the Czech Republic, that it informs insufficiently of the Convention on the Rights of a Child and for this reason the society does not know what rights this document contains. The target of the bachelor thesis is to find out if the Czech society is really insufficiently informed and if the pedagogues in the elementary school really inform their pupils on their rights sufficiently. The selected methodology was the questionnaire examination which was performed in the form of a questionnaire. 2 types of questionnaires were created, one of them for finding out to what extent the public is informed and the other one for pedagogues. The respondents of 2 towns were selected {--} Blatná and Strakonice, to be able to verify the hypothesis if the citizens of a larger town (Strakonice) are more informed than the citizens of a smaller town (Blatná). To establish if the pedagogues inform, the pedagogues of the Elementary School of Jan Amos Komenský in Blatná were addressed. I think the postulated targets of the thesis were met. The research confirmed all the hypotheses. The public is insufficiently informed. The extent of knowledge is lower in a small town than in a larger town. The pedagogues inform insufficiently the pupils about the Convention on the Rights of a Child. The recommendation following from this thesis is that the state should start to inform more the wide public. For this purpose the public education should be carried out by means of leaflets, talks of parents with their children, television spots and firsts of all the instructions of the rights of children, following from Convention on the Rights of a Child shall be involved obligatory into the teaching in elementary school.
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