Home care from a health social point of view

This extended essay deals in more detail with the organizations which give only health home care for their clients. It is a special form of the health care given to a patient at his home and paid by the state within the framework of public health insurance. During the visits, the patient is treated or rehabilitated by a gualified nurse. All the treatments are put into effect according to the treating doctor´s indications who has called for this care form. Although the questions is a health services, we can see a social influence here, too when the patient and his relations to the people round him are influenced as well. Nowadays. great numbers as state in the Czech Republic. In the first theoretical part, the attention is paid to a history of home care, a definition of basic words and a detailed specification of agency activities. Basides, the clients the services was inicated for are noticed here, too. It also concerns their state of health and social relations to the people around them and the surroundings. The data obtained from my own research are stated in the practical part. This research was carried out by a quntitative method with several techniques of a run interview and a secondary analysis of data in a set of some chosen patients living in the northern part of the Pilsen Region and agencies being situated in that area. The aim of my extended essay is to evaluated a social influence of home care on a patient and to point out the most frequent diagnoses it has been indicated for