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Background: Although the health is considered to be the highest value in our individual lives, the health care is often neglected. Health care is closely connected with health literacy which has been, especially recently, growing more as an integral part of evaluation of quality of life as well as our societal state. The Roma people who are the largest ethnic minority in the Czech Republic, population of which has never been a homogenous group comprised of only one ethnicity, are often mentioned in association wit...

The goal of the study consisted in describing the working conditions of the target group of Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic and in finding connections to their health condition. The questionnaire investigation was carried out with 237 Ukrainians in 2013–2014. The results show that the target group of migrants is exposed to adverse working conditions. Methods: The study implemented a questionnaire investigation (201 questions) in form of controlled selection. The collected data were statistically processed ...

After coming from the hospitals to their families, the patients after brain injury miss mutual cooperation of professionals from social and health sphere - i.e. application of principles of coordinated rehabilitation (including timeliness, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, availability, individual and psychological approach and repeated inter-professional assessment). The missing mutual cooperation of professionals from social and health sphere hinders a coordinated and comprehensive rehabilitation of s...

Introduction: The article is focused on interconnection of selected social and health characteristics with regard to the concept of quality of life and social determinants of health according to Wilkinson and Marmot. The selected characteristics include social exclusion and social support and their impact on the health of the Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic. The selected social characteristics were chosen with regard to the 10 social determinants of health: social gradient, stress, childhood, social exclus...