Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2013
Abstract
Long-term care (LTC) policy for chronically ill and disabled seniors is quite often simplified in models overestimating future threats to the public sector and public finance. The proposed solution is then formulated in changes of the organization and financing of LTC as a part of market-oriented reforms, without the evaluation of major consequences in terms of inequalities in access and in health.
The subject of the work is market-oriented approach of the bill on LTC in the Czech Republic in 2011, in contrast to the discourse of LTC policy options in the EU / EC-OECD-WHO and the development of knowledge / research. The aim of the work is a critical reflection of causes of such different and simplifying policy making in the Czech Republic.