Accessibility to healthcare in Karlovarský kraj

This thesis is focused on the assessment of health care in the Karlovy Vary region in terms of availability of hospital equipment. Healthcare in the Czech Republic is undergoing fundamental changes, which primarily related to the aging population, the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the related changes in the status of patients with pressure on public budgets. This leads to increased costs, which burdens the economy of hospitals, but also the entire health system. Health care providers and insurance companies must prepare for the increasing number of elderly and chronically ill population and the associated increasing health spending. Health expenditures are growing everywhere in the world and the main problem is mainly a lack of health care finance and skilled health workers. Investments in health and education and research among the most efficient yet. Indeed, only healthy people can work, create value and pay taxes. These problems have a long-term trend of continuous decline in the capacity of acute care. Healthcare fulfill a social function and stabilizing the company, but may also be the engine of the economy that is a major employer and purchaser of goods and services. Investigations in health care is possible, but only with negative effects on patients. Deficient management system can hardly continue. Professionals who deal with this issue, for several years calling for a detailed analysis of the availability of health services, and after a hierarchical structure of the state-controlled network of inpatient health care facilities. Without the political will and will not elaborate procedures to reform or to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in health care at any level