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Policies and Strategies that are Driven by the Health Sector

The Ministry of Health has several policies in place that tackle the social determinants of health inequalities. These include:

  1. National Plan for Support and Integration of Disabled Citizens 2006-2009. This plan addresses SDHI explicitly, and established a grant program for equal opportunities for the disabled
  2. Health 21, Long- term Programme for Population Health Improvement 2002-2010. This addresses SDHI explicitly in Objective 2, which is called “Equity in Health”. (Please see further explanation below.)
  3. National Action Plan on Health and Environment (NEHAP) 1998. This plan addresses SDHI implicitly where one objective  deals  with health inequalities.
  4. National Program for HIV/AIDS.
  5. National Policy Against Drugs.
  6. National Programme for Health. This programme addresses SDHI implicitly by establishing a grant program for health promotion projects.
  7. Healthy Ageing Projects. This programme addresses SDHI implicitly by establishing a grant program for health promotion projects.

Further information is available here (in Czech only).

The Ministry of health also conducts research and surveys on health status and socio-economic determinants of different SES groups. The main ministry responsible is the Ministry of Health, and collabarating partners include the Institute for Health Information and the National Czech Statistics Institute.

Further explanation of “Health 21, Long- term Programme for Population Health Improvement 2002-2010”
This programme is the  main document and policy structure in public health for the Czech Republic. It is based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) programme ‘Health 21’, and was modified according to national priorities. The programme has 19 main objectives, each with sub-objectives in which activities, goals, responsible ministries or other governmental institutions and collaborating partners are described. A summary report is published every year on the website of the Ministry of Health. The Committee for Health 21 implementation consists of 15 members: 11 from the health sector, 1 from the Ministry for  Education, 1 from  the Ministry of  Labour and Social Affair and 1 from a  regional government.

In ‘Health 21’, Objective 2 is called ‘Equity in Health’. It includes an explicit reference to socio-economic determinants of health inequalities. The objective is: ‘To decrease differences in the health status among different socio-economic groups by at least one quarter, by 2020, by the improvement of life for the disadvantaged groups.’ The Ministry of Health collaborates with (but doesn’t always initiate) other ministries especially the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education in the implementation of Health 21, especially objective 2.

Healthy Ageing Projects
There are also special health program grants for health improvement and health promotion, especially for the elderly and disabled. The main ministry responsible is the Ministry of Health. Collabarating partners include the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Regional Governments

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