Some Problems of Health Care Organization in Czechoslovakia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9103732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | EMILIE SKRBKOVÁ, MILOŜ VACEK |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 405-414 |
| Publication date | 1971-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-197109000-00004 |
| PMID | 5123758 |
| OpenAlex | W2042875548 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
A shortage of physicians and an increasing demand by the public for medical services after World War II has forced a reorganization of the health care system in Czechoslovakia. Private medical practice has been completely abolished and all health care institutions integrated into a comprehensive system utilizing a team approach among general practitioners and specialists working in state-supported hospitals and policlinics. In addition, factory physicians hold responsibility for industrial workers and employees. Coordination of health care services is managed by the Ministry of Health with the state divided into 11 regions, each region having about 10 districts. In the district, all preventive and curative services are integrated in the District Institute of National Health which supervises a main hospital and one or more secondary hospitals as well as polyclinics which, though joined to one of the hospitals in organization and function, may not be joined in location. Among the advantages of the system are the adequate distribution of personnel, financing according to need, and continuity in information concerning individual patients. On the other hand, the system does have a tendency to rigidity which restricts possibility of experimentation and an alienation of the physician-patient relationship
Business · Christian ministry · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Family medicine · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Political science · Healthcare Quality and Management · Medicine · Nursing
| Highly cited | No |
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