Health Technology Assessment (HTA) denotes a process (resp. a study), the objective of which is to get an idea about clinical, economic and ethical aspects of a health technology, including its effect to the quality of life, and a consequent assessment. The output of this process is compiled under strict methodological conditions, and it has only a character of recommendation. Abroad, HTA is intensely used above all to complex comparing two (or several) technologies. When the origin of HTA goes back to 1960 ́s and 1970 ́s, the first information appeared in the Czech Republic in the beginning of this millennium. No Czech institution is a member of international organizations INEHTA and HTAi, which makes any access to foreign know- how more difficult. Although no complex study has been probably produced in the Czech Republic, some efforts to a larger utilization of HTA methods can be seen, above all in pharmacoeconomics. What discourages their higher utilization is a lack of interest in results of HTA studies from the side of health care providers, decision makers (the Ministry, regional administrations, health insurance companies), missing methodology, absence of methodological guidance (non-existence of a national agency), pending funding, and (non)-participation in international networks., Vladimír Rogalewicz, Ivana Juřičková, and Literatura
V tomto článku se zabýváme koncepčním zakotvením institutu „dříve projevených přání pacienta“. Institut vychází ze tří konceptů, z práva na sebeurčení, práva na ochranu lidské důstojnosti a právo na nedotknutelnost osoby. Člověk je kontextuální bytí. Z faktu kontextuality pak vyplývá požadavek kontextuální interpretace pacientova textu., In this article we reflect upon human rights principles of advance directives. Advance directives come from three concepts: right of self-determination, respect for human dignity and respect to human dignity. Human person is a contextual being. From the fact of contextuality comes demand for contextual interpretation of the patient’s text., Jaromír Matějek, and Literatura
Článek navazuje na první část, ve které se autoři zaměřili na systém sociálního pojištění ve Slovenské republice, působnost lékařské posudkové služby v systému sociálního zabezpečení a posuzování zdravotního stavu a pracovní schopnosti v nemocenském pojištění. Článek přináší informace o posuzování v dalších dvou systémech sociálního zabezpečení v důchodovém a v úra zovém pojištění. V závěru autoři uvádí vývoj invalidizace ve Slovenské republice a pro srovnání i vývoj invalidizace v České republice., This article is the continuation to part one, where the authors focused on the social insurance system in the Slovak Republic, the scope of the Medical Assessment Service activities inside the social insurance system and at the medical expert judgement of the health state and temporary incapacity of work in the health insurance. This article brings information about the medical judgment in two other areas of the social insurance – the disability and accident insurance. At the end of this article the trend of disability in the Slovak Republic in comparison to the Czech Republic in the same timeframe from year 2005 to 2009., Libuše Čeledová, Jaroslava Bojcúnová, Rostislav Čevela, and Literatura