Abstract
Population mortality and morbidity conditions, its spatial, structural and temporal distribution and monitoring are important concerns in epidemiology and public health policy. Research outcomes serve as a starting point in order to address health inequality interventions in both structural and spatial context.
Similar to other CEE and EU countries, the population of the Czech Republic is also being strongly affected by processes of urbanization and demographical changes since several decades. The aim of the paper is to evaluate structural and spatial mortality distribution of selected Czech city/town populations within the inter-censual period of 2001-2011.
The paper is part of the author's Charles University Grant Foundation post-gradual project interest. The project builds on the concept of the UCL INEQ-CITIES study, applying new advanced statistical methods based on the principles of generalized mixed modelling, taking into account inner variance heterogeneity, spatial structure as well as interdependence (autocorrelation) of analyzed spatial units (in literature often termed as Bayesian mapping methods).