Zuzana Kotherová
Biographic Data
| ID | 7929569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zuzana Kotherová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zuzana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotherová |
| SIGNATURE | KOTHEROVÁ Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1214-9879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Health and care workforce preparedness in response to the influx of Ukrainian refugees
BACKGROUND: Health and care workforces across Europe face overlapping crises that test their resilience and governance capacities. In the Czech Republic, the COVID-19 pandemic was swiftly followed by a major influx of Ukrainian refugees, creating new pressures on both frontline healthcare workers and intercultural care workers. OBJECTIVE: To explore, from the perspectives of frontline healthcare workers and intercultural care workers, how governa…
The continuity of care paradox in paediatric primary care
This article explores how continuity of care - understood as long-term relationships between parents and paediatric general practitioners (PGPs) shaped by healthcare system characteristics – affects parental vaccine hesitancy (VH). Qualitative data from the Czech Republic were collected through interviews with PGPs (N = 15), nurses (N = 4) and parents (N = 30) who had intentionally delayed or refused at least one mandatory childhood vaccination. …
Post-Covid health policy responses to healthcare workforce capacities
A cross countries in Europe, health policy is seeking to adapt to the post-pandemic 'permacrisis', where high demands on the healthcare workforce and shortages continue and combine with climate change, and war. The success of these efforts depends on the capacities of the healthcare workforce. This study aims to compare health policy responses to strengthen the capacities of the healthcare workforce and to explore the underpinning dynamics betwee…
Factors Influencing the Involvement of Nurses in Preventive Care and Health Literacy in the Czech Republic
The aims of this article were to discuss the position of Czech nurses in the country's health care system, to assess their role in the preventive care and health literacy (HL) promotion and to define main factors, which may negatively impact their involvement in preventive care. We checked by the questionnaire, what is the position of nurses working in the primary care in the Czech health system, how nurses perceive their role in the preventive c…
Institutional reforms to strengthen patient and public involvement in the Czech Republic since 2014
The Use of Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Reimbursement in the Czech Hospital Care System
(1) Background: Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG), one possibility of a hospital payment system, are currently used in most European countries. Introduced to the Czech system in the 1990s, the DRGs are currently used mainly for care reporting and partly for reimbursement. According to most experts, the use of DRG remain controversial. The goal of this paper was to study the effects of the current Czech DRG system on hospitals financing and, on this …
Health policy in the Czech Republic
Transformation of the health care system was a task faced by all formerly socialist Central and Eastern European countries. The years of changes revealed a large number of problems, including those induced by the limited capacity of governments to formulate and implement health care reforms. The goal of this article is to reflect the Czech situation. We start by summarizing the historical development of the Czech health care system in the context…
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Health policy in the Czech Republic
Transformation of the health care system was a task faced by all formerly socialist Central and Eastern European countries. The years of changes revealed a large number of problems, including those induced by the limited capacity of governments to formulate and implement health care reforms. The goal of this article is to reflect the Czech situation. We start by summarizing the historical development of the Czech health care system in the context…
Institutional reforms to strengthen patient and public involvement in the Czech Republic since 2014
The Use of Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Reimbursement in the Czech Hospital Care System
(1) Background: Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG), one possibility of a hospital payment system, are currently used in most European countries. Introduced to the Czech system in the 1990s, the DRGs are currently used mainly for care reporting and partly for reimbursement. According to most experts, the use of DRG remain controversial. The goal of this paper was to study the effects of the current Czech DRG system on hospitals financing and, on this …
Factors Influencing the Involvement of Nurses in Preventive Care and Health Literacy in the Czech Republic
The aims of this article were to discuss the position of Czech nurses in the country's health care system, to assess their role in the preventive care and health literacy (HL) promotion and to define main factors, which may negatively impact their involvement in preventive care. We checked by the questionnaire, what is the position of nurses working in the primary care in the Czech health system, how nurses perceive their role in the preventive c…
Post-Covid health policy responses to healthcare workforce capacities
A cross countries in Europe, health policy is seeking to adapt to the post-pandemic 'permacrisis', where high demands on the healthcare workforce and shortages continue and combine with climate change, and war. The success of these efforts depends on the capacities of the healthcare workforce. This study aims to compare health policy responses to strengthen the capacities of the healthcare workforce and to explore the underpinning dynamics betwee…
Health and care workforce preparedness in response to the influx of Ukrainian refugees
BACKGROUND: Health and care workforces across Europe face overlapping crises that test their resilience and governance capacities. In the Czech Republic, the COVID-19 pandemic was swiftly followed by a major influx of Ukrainian refugees, creating new pressures on both frontline healthcare workers and intercultural care workers. OBJECTIVE: To explore, from the perspectives of frontline healthcare workers and intercultural care workers, how governa…
The continuity of care paradox in paediatric primary care
This article explores how continuity of care - understood as long-term relationships between parents and paediatric general practitioners (PGPs) shaped by healthcare system characteristics – affects parental vaccine hesitancy (VH). Qualitative data from the Czech Republic were collected through interviews with PGPs (N = 15), nurses (N = 4) and parents (N = 30) who had intentionally delayed or refused at least one mandatory childhood vaccination. …
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