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Authors: Marková Volejníčková, R., Maříková, H., Pospíšilová, M. & Švarcová, M.
The topic of safeguarding against sickness grew in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. People’s health was more at risk, yet not all had the same capacity and options to deal with it. Therefore, this article focuses on the under-researched topic of choice of strategies and i...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Radka Dudová
The paper discusses how selective pronatalism has been incorporated into childcare and reproductive health policies in the socialist state of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). It answers the question of how pronatalist framing has been used to categorise ‘others’, whose procreation has...
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Authors: Hašková Hana, Radka Dudová
The chapter explores how pronatalism has influenced the formation of reproductive and care policies in Czechia. It shows that the pronatalist framing has been selective in the historical as well as the present-day debates on reproduction. Although pronatalist framing presents its...
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Authors: Raudenská, Petra
Single-item measures of general well-being are increasingly being analysed cross-culturally but without clear evidence of comparability level attainment. The primary objective of this study is to examine the cross-country measurement invariance of the two most common single-item...
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Authors: Kocman, D., Stöckelová, T., Pearse, R. and Martin, G.
Over two decades, the checklist has risen to prominence in healthcare improvement. This paper contributes to the debate between its proponents and critics, making the case for an STS-informed understanding of the checklist that demonstrates the limitations of both the ‘checklist-...
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Authors: Borisova V., Stöckelová T., Ouřadová A., Gojda J
Objectives: The growing popularity of diets that restrict the consumption of animal-based foods is an important new challenge for the public healthcare system in Czechia. While the environmental and health-related benefits of plant-based diets are widely discussed in the media, p...
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Authors: Holub, Petr, Marek Skovajsa
The volume provides sociological interpretation of policie and institutions in the period of Czech transformation and accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, as well as involved value bacgrounds.
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Authors: Vobecka, Jana, Butz, William, Reyes, Gerald
Commissioned by UNFPA’s Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia this report aims to supplement the information gathered from governments and civil society with academic research. The report, prepared by the International Institute for Applied ...
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Authors: Sládek M., M. Kudrnáčová Röschová, V. Adámková, D. Hamplová, A. Sumová
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Authors: Hanzlová, R., Raudenská, P.
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most commonly used instruments for measuring life satisfaction. The aim of this study is to test the psychometric properties of the Czech version of the SWLS using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item Response Theory (I...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana
The article is dedicated to changes that have occurred in Czech obstetrics over the past decade. Although the text is dedicated especially to topical, social and medical changes in Czech obstetrics, the fact that permanent medical as well as social changes in childbirth...
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Authors: Klepal, J., T. Stöckelová
Drawing on fieldwork in the postsocialist Czech Republic, we explore the transformative processes of biomedicalization, both within and in relation to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We argue that it would be simplistic to understand evidence of these processes in C...
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Authors: Ondřej Doskočil, Andrea Beláňová
The text deals with the experience of Czech hospital chaplains in 2020. Specifically, it concerns the period during the spring and autumn waves of the pandemic caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which leads to a viral disease known as covid-19. The article builds on dat...
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Authors: Hanzlová Radka, Lynn Peter
Background: Middle and late adolescence is the period in a person’s life that is most vulnerable to mental health problems. To enable an evidence base that can support policies to prevent such problems, it is crucial to have good quality, reliable, and accurate measurement tools...

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