Health policy in the Czech Republic: General character and selected interesting aspects

• Authors: Juraj Nemec , Marek Pavlík , Ivan Malý , Zuzana Kotherová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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 of government capacity for implementing health policy. In the core parts of this article, we highlight the main features of Czech health policy making and implementation and present an in-depth analysis of two selected country-specific issues - a low level of patient co-payments and a pluralistic insurance-based financing of health services.

Keywords

EN

health policy; health care; reforms; Czech Republic; government; cabinet; failure; implementation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Central European Journal of Public Policy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 102-113

Dates

published

2015-05-01

online

2016-02-16

Contributors

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Juraj Nemec

• Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Lipová 41a, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic

author

Marek Pavlík

• Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Ivan Malý

• Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Zuzana Kotherová

• Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/cejpp-2016-0005