Les systèmes de santé des pays en développement font face à de nombreux enjeux organisationnels pour améliorer l’état de santé de leur population. Au nombre de ces enjeux, il est fréquemment mentionné la présence d’organisations internationales ayant des objectifs et caractéristiques peu convergents et qui interviennent de façon non nécessairement coordonnée. Cette thèse explore la thématique de l’introduction du changement dans ces systèmes de santé en mettant un accent spécifique sur l’enjeu lié à la présence de ces organisations internationales. La méthodologie utilisée est une analyse de concept. Cette approche méthodologique consiste à effectuer des revues critiques de la littérature sur des concepts, à mobiliser de nouvelles approches théoriques pour clarifier ces concepts et à réaliser des études de cas pour leur mise à l’épreuve empirique. En nous appuyant sur la théorie de l’action sociale de Parsons, la théorie de la complexité ainsi que les expériences d’introduction du changement dans différents systèmes de santé, nous avons développé un cadre théorique d’analyse de l’introduction du changement dans les systèmes de santé des pays en développement (1er concept). Ce cadre théorique, qui suggère de concevoir le processus d’introduction du changement comme un système d’action sociale complexe et émergent, a été appliqué à l’analyse de l’introduction d’un système de surveillance épidémiologique en Haïti. Plus précisément, nous avons analysé une étape ainsi que certains aspects du mécanisme sous-jacent au processus d’introduction du changement. Ce faisant, nous avons analysé, dans les deux premiers articles de la thèse, l’étape d’adoption du système de surveillance épidémiologique (2ème concept) ainsi que les déterminants de la collaboration entre les organisations impliquées dans le processus d’introduction du changement (3ème concept). Les résultats de ces analyses nous ont permis d’objectiver de faibles niveaux d’adoption, ainsi qu’une faible articulation des déterminants de la collaboration entre les différentes organisations impliquées dans le processus d’introduction du changement. Partant de ces constats, nous avons pu mettre en évidence, dans le troisième article, une phase de « chaos » dans le fonctionnement du système de santé d’Haïti. Cette phase de « chaos », qui pourrait expliquer les difficultés liées à l’introduction du changement dans les systèmes de santé des pays en développement en général et plus particulièrement en Haïti, était caractérisée par la présence d’un ordre sous-jacent au désordre apparent dans le fonctionnement de certaines composantes du système de santé d’Haïti, l’existence d’une instabilité, d’une imprédictibilité ainsi que d’une invariance structurelle aux différents niveaux de gouvernance. Par ailleurs, cette recherche a également permis de démontrer que les caractéristiques du « chaos » sont entretenues par la présence de trois groupes de systèmes d’action sociale bien articulés et bien cohérents à tous les échelons de la pyramide sanitaire en Haïti. Il s’agissait des systèmes d’action liés aux agences de coopération bilatérale, ceux liés aux initiatives ou fondations internationales de lutte contre le sida et finalement ceux associés aux organisations onusiennes. Ces systèmes d’action sociale sont en outre associés à d’autres systèmes d’action plus complexes qui sont situés à l’extérieur du système de santé d’Haïti. Au regard de ces résultats, nous avons proposé une nouvelle approche permettant de mieux appréhender l’introduction du changement dans les systèmes de santé des pays en développement et qui s’inscrit dans une logique permettant de favoriser une plus grande variété et une plus grande diversification. Cette variété et cette diversification étant soutenue par la création et la mise en place de plusieurs interconnections entre tous les systèmes d’action en présence dans les systèmes de santé qu’ils soient d’appartenance nationale, internationale ou qu’ils agissent au niveau central, départemental ou local. La finalité de ce processus étant l’émergence de propriétés systémiques issues non seulement des propriétés des groupes de systèmes d’action individuels qui interviennent dans la constitution du système émergent, mais aussi d’autres propriétés résultant de leur mise en commun. / In an attempt to improve the health status of their population, health care systems in developing countries face several organizational issues. These issues include the presence of international organizations with different goals and characteristics, as well as little convergence and poor coordination. While focussing on this specific issue, the objective of this dissertation is to deeply explore the issues related to the process of introducing change in health care systems of developing countries. The research method for this study is a concept analysis that requires a literature review, the use of new theories to clarify these concepts as well as the use of case studies to empirically validate these concepts. Using Parsons’s social action theory and the complexity theory, a new theory of change (1st concept) was developed and applied to the process of introduction of an epidemiological surveillance system in Haiti. More specifically, in the first two articles, we have analysed the process of adopting the epidemiological surveillance system (2nd concept) and the determinants of collaboration among the different organizations involved in the change process (3rd concept). The results from these two articles enabled us to highlights the low level of adoption as well as the weak articulation of the determinants of collaborations between the various organizations involved in the change process. From these analyses, we were able to highlights the dynamics of chaos operating in Haiti’s health care system in the third article. This chaos stage which could enable us to show the difficulties associated with the introduction of change in health systems in developing countries in general, and Haiti in particular, was characterized by a hidden order underlying an apparent disorder in the operation of certain components of the Haitian’s health system, the existence of instability, unpredictability as well as structural invariance at various levels of governance. Moreover, this research also enabled us to show that these characteristics are maintained by the presence of three well articulated and coherent social action systems at all levels of the health pyramid. They are those related to bilateral cooperation agencies, those related to international foundations and global initiatives fighting against AIDS, and finally those associated with the United Nations Organizations. These social action systems are also associated with other more complex systems outside the Haiti’s health system. On the basis of these results, we proposed a new approach to understand the process of introducing change in health care systems of developing countries that would fit into the logic that supports the setting up a larger interconnections and diversification among various organizations involved.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:17:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristiane Andrade Garcia.pdf: 2111056 bytes, checksum: d37b3c38bbaddcd5f6d9ce8f1fac6eb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-23 / This present research was conducted on the current context of implementing AMAs Assistência Médica Ambulatorial (Ambulatory Medical Assistance) in the city of São Paulo, specifically that located in Vila Nova Jaguaré zone. This AMA is a partnership between Prefeitura Muncipal de São Paulo and Fundação Faculdade de Medicina. It is a study on this service and the insertion of Social Service on this scenario. The field research was developed at AMA-Jaguaré. This study plunged into concepts related to health care, the relationship between private organizations and public assistance, Social Service practice on health care and the professional competence, the work management in a multi-professional team. The methodology has embraced the bibliographic research on the main themes, besides the documental research (laws, manuals and reports), participative investigation and the quantitative/qualitative field research. Concerning the qualitative one, the interview and the semi-structured interview were used in users, employees and professional s approach methodological procedures. The results which were obtained have shown that the service rendered by AMA may have created a new demand within the assistance net, because it showed a search that we can consider as high. We can affirm that there was not a proper projection concerning the assistance demand volume that would be created, considering the limitation of physical space and lack of professionals. Besides, it was evidenced a trend among the users concerning the need of indispensable equipment, such as XR device, for more specific health diagnosis, resulting in a demand of such arrangement. Simultaneously, it was also raised the importance of a higher attention on the reference process, by sending the cases to specialties. In terms of a positive assessment of AMA, it was made explicit the work role from Social Service. Other professionals have recognized it as a differential on user welcome, listening, mediation and attention / A presente pesquisa contextualiza-se no momento atual, de implementação das AMAs - Assistência Médica Ambulatorial na cidade de São Paulo, especificamente daquela situada no bairro de Vila Nova Jaguaré, como parte de uma parceira entre a Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo e a Fundação Faculdade de Medicina. Constitui um estudo sobre esse serviço e a inserção do Serviço Social nesse contexto. A pesquisa de campo foi desenvolvida na AMA Jaguaré, sendo nela aprofundados alguns conceitos relativos à saúde, à relação de organizações privadas com atendimento público, à prática do Serviço Social na saúde, à competência profissional e à gestão do trabalho em equipe multiprofissional. A metodologia abrangeu pesquisa bibliográfica sobre os temas centrais, além de pesquisa documental (leis, manuais e relatórios), observação participante e pesquisa de campo quanti-qualitativa. Quanto a esta última, foram utilizados como procedimentos metodológicos de abordagem de usuários, funcionários e profissionais, questionário e entrevista semiestruturada. A pesquisa foi norteada por algumas questões básicas, levando-se em conta principalmente a forma como foi pensada em São Paulo a questão das Organizações Sociais no âmbito da saúde, na relação público / privado. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que o serviço prestado pela AMA pode ter criado uma nova demanda dentro da rede de atendimento, ao ter recebido uma procura que deve ser considerada alta. Pode-se afirmar que não foi feita uma projeção adequada do volume da demanda de atendimento que seria criada, tanto se considerando a limitação do espaço físico como a insuficiência de profissionais. Além disso, constatou-se entre os usuários um consenso sobre a necessidade de equipamentos indispensáveis, tais como aparelho de RX para diagnósticos de saúde mais específicos, tendo sido reivindicada essa providência. Foi levantada também, paralelamente, a importância de maior atenção ao processo de referência, com a realização de encaminhamentos para especialidades. Em termos de avaliação positiva da AMA, explicitouse o papel do trabalho desenvolvido pelo Serviço Social, que foi reconhecido pelos outros profissionais como um diferencial na abordagem, na escuta, na mediação e no acolhimento do usuário

Les systèmes de santé des pays en développement font face à de nombreux enjeux organisationnels pour améliorer l’état de santé de leur population. Au nombre de ces enjeux, il est fréquemment mentionné la présence d’organisations internationales ayant des objectifs et caractéristiques peu convergents et qui interviennent de façon non nécessairement coordonnée. Cette thèse explore la thématique de l’introduction du changement dans ces systèmes de santé en mettant un accent spécifique sur l’enjeu lié à la présence de ces organisations internationales. La méthodologie utilisée est une analyse de concept. Cette approche méthodologique consiste à effectuer des revues critiques de la littérature sur des concepts, à mobiliser de nouvelles approches théoriques pour clarifier ces concepts et à réaliser des études de cas pour leur mise à l’épreuve empirique. En nous appuyant sur la théorie de l’action sociale de Parsons, la théorie de la complexité ainsi que les expériences d’introduction du changement dans différents systèmes de santé, nous avons développé un cadre théorique d’analyse de l’introduction du changement dans les systèmes de santé des pays en développement (1er concept). Ce cadre théorique, qui suggère de concevoir le processus d’introduction du changement comme un système d’action sociale complexe et émergent, a été appliqué à l’analyse de l’introduction d’un système de surveillance épidémiologique en Haïti. Plus précisément, nous avons analysé une étape ainsi que certains aspects du mécanisme sous-jacent au processus d’introduction du changement. Ce faisant, nous avons analysé, dans les deux premiers articles de la thèse, l’étape d’adoption du système de surveillance épidémiologique (2ème concept) ainsi que les déterminants de la collaboration entre les organisations impliquées dans le processus d’introduction du changement (3ème concept). Les résultats de ces analyses nous ont permis d’objectiver de faibles niveaux d’adoption, ainsi qu’une faible articulation des déterminants de la collaboration entre les différentes organisations impliquées dans le processus d’introduction du changement. Partant de ces constats, nous avons pu mettre en évidence, dans le troisième article, une phase de « chaos » dans le fonctionnement du système de santé d’Haïti. Cette phase de « chaos », qui pourrait expliquer les difficultés liées à l’introduction du changement dans les systèmes de santé des pays en développement en général et plus particulièrement en Haïti, était caractérisée par la présence d’un ordre sous-jacent au désordre apparent dans le fonctionnement de certaines composantes du système de santé d’Haïti, l’existence d’une instabilité, d’une imprédictibilité ainsi que d’une invariance structurelle aux différents niveaux de gouvernance. Par ailleurs, cette recherche a également permis de démontrer que les caractéristiques du « chaos » sont entretenues par la présence de trois groupes de systèmes d’action sociale bien articulés et bien cohérents à tous les échelons de la pyramide sanitaire en Haïti. Il s’agissait des systèmes d’action liés aux agences de coopération bilatérale, ceux liés aux initiatives ou fondations internationales de lutte contre le sida et finalement ceux associés aux organisations onusiennes. Ces systèmes d’action sociale sont en outre associés à d’autres systèmes d’action plus complexes qui sont situés à l’extérieur du système de santé d’Haïti. Au regard de ces résultats, nous avons proposé une nouvelle approche permettant de mieux appréhender l’introduction du changement dans les systèmes de santé des pays en développement et qui s’inscrit dans une logique permettant de favoriser une plus grande variété et une plus grande diversification. Cette variété et cette diversification étant soutenue par la création et la mise en place de plusieurs interconnections entre tous les systèmes d’action en présence dans les systèmes de santé qu’ils soient d’appartenance nationale, internationale ou qu’ils agissent au niveau central, départemental ou local. La finalité de ce processus étant l’émergence de propriétés systémiques issues non seulement des propriétés des groupes de systèmes d’action individuels qui interviennent dans la constitution du système émergent, mais aussi d’autres propriétés résultant de leur mise en commun. / In an attempt to improve the health status of their population, health care systems in developing countries face several organizational issues. These issues include the presence of international organizations with different goals and characteristics, as well as little convergence and poor coordination. While focussing on this specific issue, the objective of this dissertation is to deeply explore the issues related to the process of introducing change in health care systems of developing countries. The research method for this study is a concept analysis that requires a literature review, the use of new theories to clarify these concepts as well as the use of case studies to empirically validate these concepts. Using Parsons’s social action theory and the complexity theory, a new theory of change (1st concept) was developed and applied to the process of introduction of an epidemiological surveillance system in Haiti. More specifically, in the first two articles, we have analysed the process of adopting the epidemiological surveillance system (2nd concept) and the determinants of collaboration among the different organizations involved in the change process (3rd concept). The results from these two articles enabled us to highlights the low level of adoption as well as the weak articulation of the determinants of collaborations between the various organizations involved in the change process. From these analyses, we were able to highlights the dynamics of chaos operating in Haiti’s health care system in the third article. This chaos stage which could enable us to show the difficulties associated with the introduction of change in health systems in developing countries in general, and Haiti in particular, was characterized by a hidden order underlying an apparent disorder in the operation of certain components of the Haitian’s health system, the existence of instability, unpredictability as well as structural invariance at various levels of governance. Moreover, this research also enabled us to show that these characteristics are maintained by the presence of three well articulated and coherent social action systems at all levels of the health pyramid. They are those related to bilateral cooperation agencies, those related to international foundations and global initiatives fighting against AIDS, and finally those associated with the United Nations Organizations. These social action systems are also associated with other more complex systems outside the Haiti’s health system. On the basis of these results, we proposed a new approach to understand the process of introducing change in health care systems of developing countries that would fit into the logic that supports the setting up a larger interconnections and diversification among various organizations involved.

L’objectif central de cette thèse est d’appréhender « le maillon faible » du système français de régulation et de contrôle des dépenses de santé, entendu comme un élément résiduel, « caché », qui empêche le système de parvenir aux objectifs ciblés. Nous mettons en œuvre les outils économiques et économétriques pour tester l’hypothèse selon laquelle les comportements dépensiers et inattendus des médecins sont liés aux politiques publiques. Pour appréhender le phénomène recherché nous menons quatre études micro–économétriques (qui sont économiques, quantitatives et sociologiques) de l’évolution du comportement du médecin omnipraticien libéral français. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux choix volontaires des praticiens portant sur les pratiques tarifaires et sur l’organisation du travail. Dans le cadre de l’approche économétrique, nous utilisons les données d’un panel non-cylindré de 8131 médecins libéraux différents observés durant la période 1979-2000 et représentatifs de la population concernée, ainsi que les méthodes économétriques appropriées à chaque cas étudié selon sa nature. Outre la validité de l’hypothèse, les résultats obtenus apportent des éléments de compréhension du type de rationalité du médecin, de ses motivations, des facteurs qui guident ses choix et des pistes d’explication de l’inefficacité des dispositifs politiques mis en œuvre. Ils fournissent également des réflexions sur les recommandations à faire en matière de mesures politiques et suggèrent de nouvelles pistes de recherche. / The main aim of that doctoral dissertation is to comprehend "the weak link" in the French system of regulation and control of health expenditure, understood us a residual, "hidden" element, which prevents the system from reaching the targets. We use the economic and econometric methods to prove the hypothesis that unexpected and wasteful medical behaviour can be caused by the public policy. There are four micro-econometric studies (which are economic, sociological and quantitative) of the French general self-employed practitioner’s behavioural evolution. We focus on the practitioner’s voluntary choices of the pricing practices and on the medical practice organisation. In the econometric studies, we use an unbalanced panel data comprising 8131 self-employed physicians who were observed over the 1979-2000 period and who are representative of the medical population, and different econometric methods depending on the analysis. Our results offer an empirical understanding of an unexpected medical behaviour phenomenon; they offer information about the practitioner’s rationality kind, the practitioner’s motivations, the factors exerting influence on their choices; and they offer clarification of the public policy’s inefficiency. Also, our results propose observations about a recommendation for policy measures and new approaches for the future research.

Text in English / This qualitative descriptive phenomenological study explored the experiences of HIV positive women utilising PMTCT services at a central hospital in Zimbabwe. Data was collected using in-depth interviews of fifteen participants. The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Using the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis framework for data analysis, two super-ordinate themes emerged, namely resources for provision of PMTCT services and approaches and nature of PMTCT care. The study revealed challenges experienced by HIV positive women emanating from material, financial and human resource related constraints in the PMTCT setting. The resource challenges negatively affected access and utilisation of PMTCT services. A practice model, whose purpose is to enhance the quality and utilisation of PMTCT services, was developed and described. The model was evaluated using Chin and Krammer (2011) criteria plus a modified form of the Delphi technique. These findings have implications for effective PMTCT service provision. The key lessons learnt for programmatic improvement were that in order to provide quality and accessible PMTCT services the health care system will need to be well resourced. There is need to strengthen the health care system in line with HIV related programmatic changes. / Health Studies / D. L.itt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

La ville d’Abidjan est localisée au Sud de la Côte d’Ivoire. Elle est la capitale économique depuis 1983 et la première ville du pays. Elle concentre le potentiel humain et une offre de soins dense et diversifiée répartie sur de faibles distances physiques, donnant l’impression que tout est accessible. En effet, l’État Ivoirien a consenti d’importants investissements pour construire et équiper des services de santé depuis l’émergence de la ville au début du siècle dernier pour améliorer l’accès aux soins des abidjanais. Pourtant, malgré une augmentation considérable du nombre d’infrastructures sanitaires et de leur disponibilité, les taux d’utilisations et de fréquentations des services de santé modernes dans les communes de la ville d’Abidjan restent faibles et les indicateurs de santé demeurent très préoccupants et les besoins de soins sont importants. En plus, la croissance spatiale et démographique accélérée que connaît la ville entraînent des changements rapides dans son organisation territoriale empêchant les autorités publiques chargées de la planification de suivre le rythme de sa croissance urbaine. Ils ne sont pas toujours parvenus à équiper en services urbains les nouveaux espaces au fur et à mesure de leur création et à intégrer les nouveaux citadins aux origines diverses. Cette thèse permet d’étudier, comment, dans un contexte considéré comme privilégié, se pose la problématique de l’accès et du recours aux services de santé modernes. Pour réaliser ce projet, cette étude, à partir des combinaisons d’analyses spatiales, statistiques, et d’un travail de terrain, analyse les inégalités socio-spatiales d’accès aux services de santé pour mettre en exergue le problème de l’accessibilité aux soins, tant physique, culturelle, matérielle que sociale. Elle mesure également l’adéquation de cette offre de soins moderne aux besoins de soins des populations pour identifier les zones et les populations défavorisées pour l’accès aux soins. Et enfin, cette étude analyse les pratiques citadines du recours aux soins, ainsi que les déterminants qui limitent ou facilitent l’accès aux soins dans la ville d’Abidjan. Les résultats des études montrent que les services de santé existent, ils sont denses et diversifiés, mais ils ne sont pas repartis là où il y a le plus de besoins de soins. Dans notre étude, on souligne aussi une prédominance de la prise en charge à domicile des épisodes morbides notamment à travers l’automédication et une diminution de l’utilisation des services de soins modernes. Le recours aux structures de soins se fait rare dans les quartiers où les besoins en soins de santé sont les plus importants. L’automédication ou la médecine de rue sont généralement les plus privilégiées. Les structures de soins sont sollicitées que lorsque la maladie devient très grave. Nos résultats montrent également qu’il est difficile d’attribuer à un facteur le rôle déterminant des recours thérapeutiques, car les comportements sont à la fois déterminés par les caractéristiques socio-démographiques de l’individu, de sa famille et par des paramètres contextuels, mais aussi par les caractéristiques de l’épisode morbide, par la connaissance du système de soins environnant et les attitudes vis-à-vis du système de soins. Néanmoins, nous pouvons dire qu’à Abidjan, les pratiques citadines du recours aux soins sont tributaires de la capacité économique des ménages avec le risque accru de marginaliser les personnes les plus vulnérables. / The city of Abidjan is located in the South of the Ivory Coast. It is the economic capital since 1983 and the first city of the country. It concentrates human potential and health of dense care supply modern and diversified divided on weak physical distance, giving the impression that everything is approachable. In effect, the State Of the Ivory Coast approved important investments to construct and equip services of health care since the emergence of the city at the beginning of last century to ameliorate the access to health care of abidjanais. However, in spite of a considerable increase among health facilities and among their availability, the rates of uses and company of the services of modern health care in the spaces of the city of Abidjan remain weak and the indicators of health remain very worrying and the needs in care of health are important. On top of that, the space and demographic speeded up growth which knows the city draw away quick changes in her territorial organization preventing the public authorities made responsible with planning for following the rhythm of its urban growth. They did not always manage to equip new urban spaces with timely urban services and to integrate new citizens at the various origins. This thesis allows to be studying, how, in a considered context as privileged, settle the problems of access and health care seeking in the services of modern health. To accomplish this plan, this study, from the combination of spatial analysis, statistics, and field work, analyses the socio- spatial inequality of access to the services of health to head with the problem of accessibility in care, so physical, cultural, material that social. It also measures the adequacy of health care supply at the Needs in care of health of populations to identify zones and populations discriminated for the access to health care. And finally, this study analyses the city practices in the use of health care, as well as the determinants that hinder or facilitate access to health care in the city of Abidjan. Study results show that the services of health exist, they are dense and manifold, but they did not leave again where there are most needs in care of health. In our study, they also underline a predominance of the taking care at home of morbid episodes notably across self-medication and a reduction of the use of the services of modern care. The seeking in structures of health care becomes rare in the space where the needs in care of health are the most important. Self-medication or street medicine are the most favouring in general. Structures of health care are solicited that when illness becomes very serious. Our results also show that it is difficult to allocate to a factor the role determining therapeutic seeking, because behaviours are determined at the same time by the socio-demographic characteristics of the individual, his family and by contextual parameters, but also by the characteristics of morbid episode, by the knowledge of the ambient the health care system and attitudes in relation to the health care system. However, we can say that in Abidjan, the city practices of health care seeking are dependent on the economic capacity of household with risk augmented to marginalize the most vulnerable persons.

Background Close, continuous and efficient collaboration between different professions and sectors of care is necessary to provide patient-centered care for individuals with mental disorders. The lack of structured collaboration between in- and outpatient care constitutes a limitation of the German health care system. Since 2012, a new law in Germany (§64b Social code book (SGB) V) has enabled the establishment of cross-sectoral and patient-centered treatment models in psychiatry. Such model projects follow a capitation budget, i.e. a total per patient budget of inpatient and outpatient care in psychiatric clinics. Providers are able to choose the treatment form and adapt the treatment to the needs of the patients. The present study (EVA64) will investigate the effectiveness, costs and efficiency of almost all model projects established in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Methods/design A health insurance data-based controlled cohort study is used. Data from up to 89 statutory health insurance (SHI) funds, i.e. 79% of all SHI funds in Germany (May 2017), on inpatient and outpatient care, pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatments and sick leave for a period of 7 years will be analyzed. All patients insured by any of the participating SHI funds and treated in one of the model hospitals for any of 16 pre-defined mental disorders will be compared with patients in routine care. Sick leave (primary outcome), utilization of inpatient care (primary outcome), utilization of outpatient care, continuity of contacts in (psychiatric) care, physician and hospital hopping, re-admission rate, comorbidity, mortality, disease progression, and guideline adherence will be analyzed. Cost and effectivity of model and routine care will be estimated using cost-effectiveness analyses. Up to 10 control hospitals for each of the 18 model hospitals will be selected according to a pre-defined algorithm. Discussion The evaluation of complex interventions is an important main task of health services research and constitutes the basis of evidence-guided advancement in health care. The study will yield important new evidence to guide the future provision of routine care for mentally ill patients in Germany and possibly beyond. Trial registration This study was registered in the database “Health Services Research Germany” (trial number: VVfD_EVA64_15_003713).

6 Abstract The health care concerning the pregnancy and delivery at foreign women from non-EU nations in the Czech Republic The thesis is devoted to health care that is provided in the Czech Republic for foreign women from countries outside the EU, in connection with pregnancy and childbirth. In the first part of my thesis there is described health care in the Czech Republic in general. It contains an overview of legislation on health care, described the healthcare system in the Czech Republic, public health insurance and there are also summarized the legal rights to health care of migrants from "third countries" with a focus on pregnancy and childbirth. The second part focuses on migration issues, describes the current status and historical facts about migration in the CR and describes the legislative regulation of migration in the Czech Republic, mainly focusing on foreigners from non-EU countries. In the empirical part of the thesis used a qualitative method of data processing and analysis based on interviews with twelve women in labour from non-EU countries. Interviews present their experience with maternal health care, which was provided to them in the Czech Republic and explaining their orientation in the health care system. The thesis summarizes possibilities and range of the health insurance for...

The diploma thesis deals with the field of the care after quadriplegics in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe positive and negative aspects of the care provided to quadriplegics both in Great Britain and the Czech Republic from the point of view of the care users, and subsequently to propose possibilities of improvement of the care in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part explains quadriplegia and outline social and health systems for quadriplegics in the Czech Republic as well as in the United Kingdom. This part includes the description of compensatory aids available for clients, conditions of health and social insurance, rehabilitation care options and financial support in both countries. In the research part, based on data interpretation of the data collected by qualitative research technique (interviews that were implemented with quadriplegics living the Czech Republic and United Kingdom), I analyze the situation of the clients of both social and health systems. These interviews revealed several areas of positive and negative evaluation of the existing situation and highlight possibilities of potential future improvement of the care in the Czech Republic.

La tesi approfondisce il complesso rapporto tra diritto, religione e sanità nella realtà americana, concentrandosi in particolare sulle problematiche scaturenti dall’orientamento religioso del paziente, del care provider e della struttura sanitaria. La prima sezione si propone di studiare, sempre in chiave giuridica, l’evoluzione del rapporto tra fede e medicina, presentando altresì due casi di studio: i nativi americani e christian science. Nella seconda sezione, invece, si ricostruiscono le linee interpretative essenziali del primo emendamento con specifico approfondimento tanto della Free exercise clause che dalla establishment clause. Parimenti, viene tracciato un disegno di sintesi del sistema sanitario americano, soffermandosi tanto sugli aspetti pubblicistici che su quelli privatistici dello stesso. La ricerca, poi, si sofferma sull’analisi dettagliata delle problematiche evidenziate dalla giurisprudenza americana con riferimento al care receiver, al care provider e, soprattutto, al contenzioso in materia pediatrica. L’ultima parte è dedicata allo sviluppo di due distinti filoni, ovvero: il rapporto tra scienza e diritto ed il ruolo dell’economia. Questo ultimo aspetto viene approfondito sotto due diversi punti di vista. In primo luogo si ricostruisce l’impatto economico delle policy che garantiscono la libertà religiosa sul “sistema sanità”. In secondo luogo, si approfondisce il tema dell’influenza del dato economico sullo sviluppo della libertà religiosa in ambito sanitario. / This work deals with the complex relationship between law, religion and the sanitary system in the U.S. setting, by focusing on the problems emerging from the religious view of the patient, of the care provider and the religious orientation of the hospital or HMO. The first section of the work aims to study, from a legal point of view, the evolution of the relationship “medicine-religion”, and focuses on two case studies: native Americans and Christian science. In the second section the essential interpretative streamlines about the first amendment are presented, through a deep analysis of the Free Exercise Clause and of the Establishment Clause. At the same time, the American (U.S.) sanitary system is deeply studied both in the private sector and the public one. The research then focuses on a detailed analysis of the jurisprudence related to the care provider and the care receiver, while a specific section is dedicated to the litigation concerning pediatric patients and the related litigation cases. The last part develops two different subjects: the relationship between science and law, and the role of economy. This last subject is deeply analyzed under two different points of view: the economic impact of the religious freedom on the “sanitary system” on the one hand; and the influence of the economic data on the development of religious freedom in the health care system setting on the other.