The article is focused on the key problems of long-term care provided to disabled seniors above 65 years of their age and disabled children in the Czech Republic from informal carers' point of view. The research is based on 25 semi-structured interviews with informal carers. The results show a serious shortage of (social and health care) services generally as well as for informal carers alone, shortage of useful information and medical devices. In some cases, insufficient coordinative and informative role of general practitioners and paediatricians is also a problem. The informal carers also criticised poor coordination of medical and social care in the Czech Republic., Dobiášová Karolína, Kotrusová Miriam, Hošťálková Jitka, and Literatura
Článek v širším historickém kontextu pojednává o dlouhodobě připravované reformě zdravotnictví v Nizozemsku, která byla završena v roce 2006. Analyzuje příčiny, které k reformě vedly a seznamuje s reformní strategií a jejím postupem. S odstupem několika let mapuje dopady reformy na dostupnost zdravotní péče, chování poskytovatelů i zdravotních pojišťoven a na pacienty. Nastiňuje ekonomické důsledky reformy a některé etické souvislosti., The article is focused on the long-planned health care reform in the Netherlands completed in 2006 in a broader historical context. The aim of the text is: firstly, to analyse the causes of the reform and secondly, to discuss reform strategy as well as its progress. After several years since reforms implementation there are mapping their impact on the access to health care and behaviour of health providers, insurance companies and patients. The article outlines the economic consequences of the reform and some ethical issues., Helena Hnilicová, Karolína Dobiášová, and Literatura