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Authors: Dudová, Radka
Investigating what happens when money in the form of a cash-for-care benefit enters family relationships, this article examines long-term family care in the Czech Republic where a “care allowance” was introduced in 2007. It compares two qualitative studies: one of adult children...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Zuzana Uhde (eds.)
The authors argue that the recognition of care and carers in society requires rethinking of the citizenship paradigm focused on paid work and ideal of the independent individual. The obstacles for gender equity are addressed by examining the social organisation of childcare as a...
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Authors: Formánková, Lenka, Dobrotić, Ivana
This article considers women’s and men’s roles in the labour market and the different ways in which care-work is shared inSlovenia and the Czech Republic. Effective policy measures can prevent parenting of young children be...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Uhde, Zuzana, Pulkrábková, Kateřina
Authors employ frame analysis to explain how feminist organizations, gender-conservative women’s orgs., migrant-oriented orgs. and Roma women’s groups in the Czech Republic frame their care claims. They identify five interpretative frames (gen...
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Authors: Křížková, Alena, Hašková, Hana
The focus in the following article lies on the interconnection between employment and care in the Czech Republic. To begin with we present the institutional framework for gender equality that has been introduced in ...
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Authors: Maříková, Hana
The paper explores the construction of work and care in various contexts of breadwinning in the Czech Republic. It looks into what importance mothers of small children attribute to work and care in various...
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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
The review of the book The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held. 
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Authors: Dudová Radka
This article seeks to describe and explain some of the factors behind the prevalence of women in informal care for seniors. It presents a qualitative study of women who are caring for a frail elderly parent in the Czech Re-public. Care is seen as a space where gender and other in...
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Authors: Martin, G., Kocman, D., Stephens, T., Peden, C., Pearse, R.
Care pathways are a prominent feature of efforts to improve healthcare quality, outcomes and accountability, but sociological studies of pathways often find professional resistance to standardisation. This qualitative study examined the adoption and adaptation of a novel pathway...
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Authors: Conroy, S., Martin, G., Kocman, D., Parker, S., Bardsley, M., Kennedy, S., Neuburger, J., Phelps, K., Regen, E., Roberts, H., Sherlaw, Ch., Smith, P.
Frail older people admitted for acute inpatient hospital care are at high risk of adverse events, long stays, readmission and long term care. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) improves outcomes for this group, particularly on specialised wards. However, there is uncertaint...
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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women’s emancipation in late-modern Western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studie...
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Authors: T. J. Stephens, C. J. Peden, R. M. Pearse, S. E. Shaw, T. E. F. Abbott, E. Jones, D. Kocman, G. Martin
AbstractBackground: Improving the quality and safety of perioperative care is a global priority. The Enhanced Peri-Operative Care for High-risk patients (EPOCH) trial was a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial of a quality improvement (QI) programme to improve 90-day survival f...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Dudová, Radka
Economic transformation after 1989 and the global economic recession that began in 2008 have caused an increase in precarious work in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a result of refamilialization, precarious work acquired a specific form for women. We use the Czec...

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