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Analysis of economical development of health insurance companies in the Czech Republic
Žalmánek, Ondřej ; Hendrychová, Tereza (advisor) ; Babica, Jan (referee)
Analysis of economical development of health insurance companies in the Czech Republic Author: Ondřej Žalmánek Supervisor: PharmDr. Tereza Hendrychová, Ph.D. Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy Introduction and Objective: Health insurance companies play an important role in health care system in the Czech Republic. Their main task is to ensure the payment of health services in the form of health insurance. The objective of the work was to analyze the development of health insurance companies in the Czech Republic with a focus on the costs of medicinal products (MP) and medical devices (MD) dispensed on medical prescription in the years 2018-2020. Methodology: Data on health insurance companies' economy were obtained from the annual reports for the years 2018-2020, which health insurance companies publish on their websites. Data on the total costs of selected health services related to prescription of MP and MD and expenses for MP and MD dispensed on prescription issued by health service providers were processed. For the possibility of comparison, the data were converted to one insured person. The data were processed using Microsoft Excel software and evaluated by methods of descriptive and comparative statistics. Results: Health...
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Regional variation in health care spending
Hadrová, Petra ; Pavloková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Hildebrandt, Barbora (referee)
This thesis examines the regional variation in health care spending in the Czech Republic. The problem of regional variation in health care spending has been a subject of many studies all over the word for several years. Dartmouth Atlas in the United States in 1998 pointed out significant differences in the consumption and financing of health care. In different countries apply different health care systems, yet they have something in common. It is the regional variation in health care consumption and spending. In the Czech Republic the problem of area variation was marginally analyzed by the Roundtable (Kulatý stůl). Detailed analysis, however, does not exist. This paper uses VZP data that are related to 2009 and represent individual consumption data of health care segments covered by health insurance. Using secondary analysis of these data we find and analyze specific regional variations in health care spending across all heath care segments, even on a district level.
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Mental Health Care i the Czech Republic: Problems and solutions
Skalník, Michal ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Háva, Petr (referee)
Problems of mental health care in the Czech republic have been defined in the early nineties. Yet after nineteen years of progress in this area, these problems are still major topics in mental health care policy documents. Main purpose of diploma paper is therefore to analyse mental health care problems and at the same time also might-be solutions. Mental health care problems definitions as conceptualized in mental helth care policy documents are found to be plausible. Though the amount of supportive data is sufficent, there are differences in decisiveness of some arguments. Available solutions are brought up and described in various manners in order to show their own logic, rules and after all their usability. Final conclusions consider the roles and responsiblities of various policy actors.
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The system of health insurance in Germany as a political issue after unification
Janura, Lukáš ; Mlsna, Petr (advisor) ; Rákosník, Jakub (referee) ; Havlík, Vratislav (referee)
The thesis analyses the healthcare system in Germeny after the 1990s. The aim is to analyse the changes in the positions of insured persons within the system, as well as both internal and external factors which resulted in these changes. The role of insured persons is different than in the 1990s. Reforms and their impacts with regard to key players, especially patients are described in each chapter. The analysis is devided into four chapters, which are dedicated to the systém of insurance as such, the health care providers and the role of informations for the insured persons, subsequently. At the end, the influence of reunification is analysed. The thesis formulates conditions on which more responsibility and more decision-making opportunities are given to insured persons or taken away from them. Moreover, the role of external factors is described (e. g. the pharmaceutical industry, the development of media or macroeconomic development). Information sources used for the analysis derive from sickness funds, sickness fund unions, expert recommendations, legislation or programmes of political parties. The thesis concludes that the role of sickness funds has been strengthened, but the utilization is not as rational as it seems and is inhibited by some other factors. In a broader context, the conclusions...
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The issue of preventive medical examinations in the population over 45 years old
ZÁRUBOVÁ, Michaela
The topic of my bachelor thesis is ´The Issue of Preventive Medical Examinations in Population over 45 years of age.´ The thesis is divided into two parts, a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part deals with the meaning and content of medical examinations at a practitioner´s and a dentist´s for adults, and at a gynaecologist´s for adult women in more detail. The practical part describes the determined hypotheses and the aim of the thesis, which was to find out the extent of awareness about preventive medical examination (further on referred to as PME) within healthcare in a chosen sample of Czech population aged 45 and more. The thesis methodology clarifies the evaluation of data gathered via my own research. For the purposes of my own research I have chosen the methodology of quantitative analysis, i.e. non-standardized questionnare (Appendix No.1). Using this questionnare, I was able to evaluate the determined hypotheses and find out whether respondents over 45 years of age are aware of the issue of preventive medical examinations. The research sample was made of 156 respondents, predominantly by women, 107, and the rest 49 were men. The pleasant finding is that most respondents attend their preventive medical examinations for adults regularly, i.e. 106 respondents out of the research sample, out of 156. 39 out of the remaining 50 respondents who do not attend regularly, have stated the absence of health complications as their reason. A less positive result of the research is that only 35 respondents out of 156 are invited to attend a preventive medical examination for adults by their practitioner. The rest of 121 are not, however, 98 of them would be interested in being invited. I have found out that the knowledge of PME for adults time range at a practitioner´s does not differ in terms of age, according to my research not even education plays a role, there are no differences even in ways of PME invitation preference given by age.
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Regional variation in health care spending
Hadrová, Petra ; Pavloková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Hildebrandt, Barbora (referee)
This thesis examines the regional variation in health care spending in the Czech Republic. The problem of regional variation in health care spending has been a subject of many studies all over the word for several years. Dartmouth Atlas in the United States in 1998 pointed out significant differences in the consumption and financing of health care. In different countries apply different health care systems, yet they have something in common. It is the regional variation in health care consumption and spending. In the Czech Republic the problem of area variation was marginally analyzed by the Roundtable (Kulatý stůl). Detailed analysis, however, does not exist. This paper uses VZP data that are related to 2009 and represent individual consumption data of health care segments covered by health insurance. Using secondary analysis of these data we find and analyze specific regional variations in health care spending across all heath care segments, even on a district level.
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Progress of the system of public health insurance and health insurance companies in the Czech Republic for the period 2000 - 2015
Pecková, Tereza ; Lukášová, Tereza (advisor) ; Bartůsková, Lucia (referee)
This bachelor´s thesis analyzes the basic funds of health insurance companies for the period 2000 - 2015 in the Czech Republic, especially the creation of resources and their use and the entire system of public health insurance in the Czech Republic. Basic funds are one of the components of the overall economy of health insurance companies. First it is necessary to describe the market of the insured. The insured create and use the finances within public health insurance. Also important are contributions from the state budget for those insured by the state. We can conclude that the cost of health insurance companies are rising and that population is aging in the Czech Republic. However, this is not a balanced linear growth. The number of pensioners grew at a slower rate of growth, but according to population development forecast, there should be faster growth in the number of pensioners in the following years. Significant growth in cost is particularly noticeable in the age category of 80 and above, and increasingly more people should live up to this blessed age, also thanks to modern public health.
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Analysis of trends in the number and structure of the insured in the Czech Republic
Andrysíková, Hana ; Procházková, Radka (advisor) ; Marcela, Marcela (referee)
The topic of the thesis is analysis of number and structure development of insured people in Czech Republic. The first part of the thesis is defined by terms related to relevant topic. The second part of the thesis is focused on statistical analysis of selected indicators of development of structure and insured people from 2004 to 2014, done by methods of elementary characteristic of time series, trend functions and extrapolation of statistical analyzes. The last part of the thesis is based on values obtained by statistical analysis of single indicators and provides a complete overview of the number of people insured by selected insurance companies, on which basis an estimation of future trends of number of insured people is done.
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