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Povinnosti pacientů a zdravotnických zařízení v ochraně veřejného zdraví / Obligations of Patients and Medical Facilities in Public Health Protection

Personality rights are fundamental human rights which are the subject of much attention also during the provision of health care. A patient has right, above all, to data protection in his medical documentation, medical facilities have an obligation to maintain confidentiality on matters relating to the patient?s state of health. All therapeutic actions can be carried out only with the consent of a patient. However, the personality rights can be limited in order to protect public health. Legislation can impose a whole range of obligations and duties to patients and medical facilities in order to protect public health. The thesis summarizes fundamental legislation and regulations of the above mentioned issue. It describes a possibility to break the confidentiality in order to protect public health, a regulation of imposition of compulsory medical treatment and anti-epidemiological measures. The thesis briefly informs about company preventive care and related limited choice of a physician and a medical facility. The objective of the thesis was to find out the views of general public of limitations of personality rights in order to protect public health. For the practical part the method of quantitative research was chosen, the technique of a questionnaire. The research was conducted from January 2011 to March 2011 in the region of České Budějovice. The research group included 460 respondents, 405 respondents filled in the questionnaires properly and these were included in the research. To achieve the research objectives, three hypotheses were set. Hypotheses 1 and 3 were proven on the basis of obtained and statistically evaluated data. Hypothesis 2 was not proven. The research results demonstrated especially differences in respondents´ views of a possibility to refuse obligatory vaccinations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:55643
Date January 2011
CreatorsPRAŽMOVÁ, Zuzana
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageCzech
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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