Abstract
The subject of work is the development of Czech health care law in the past 20 years in the context of (1) Czechoslovak and Czech social change, (2) the development of international human rights interpretations related to health. The goal is evaluation of the Czech health care law in the individual developmental stages and their compliance with human rights related to health.
Running away from the Czech health care law framework of human rights and its substitution by a positive concept of patients' rights is accompanied by efforts to reduce human rights protection mechanisms at the Constitutional Court ("euroamendment" of the Czech Constitution in 2001). Major changes in medical law in relation to human rights brings the current changes in health care reform (2011 - Health Reform I and II.
Phase).