Kontakt 2013, 15(1):66-74 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.009

Providing of equal accessibility of taking health care of children and youth (in the field of preventive medical examinations on the part of the state in terms of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria)Health and Social Sciences - Original article

Jana Samková^*, Miloš Velemínský

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra klinických a preklinických oborů

In association with membership conditions of countries in the European Union, which prefers national politics of the health care in certain topics, a situation can be encountered where some European Union countries are bound by the ratification of international conditions on human rights in addition to their national protection, which does not hold for some other countries. This also concerns the implementation and introduction in practice of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. Whereas the Czech Republic and Slovakia signed and ratified this international convention, Austria has not yet given their signature and ratification. Article 3 of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine "Equal accessibility of the health care" obliges the ratifying countries to develop as large effort as possible to provide the accessibility for all the inhabitants. The target is implementing fair attitude to the health care depending on needs of the medical treatment and providing sufficient prevention. The article presented here deals with legislative provisions on the part of the state aimed at equal access to the preventive care for children and youth in the above mentioned countries. The scope of the research was to find whether the states, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria, provide their citizens with full access to the health care in the field of preventive medical examinations for children and youth. The methods and techniques employed were as follows: secondary and primary sources, comparison and data analysis. The results demonstrated that on the part of states, the accessibility of the preventive health care for children and youth is provided in a comparable way in terms of the legislation.

Keywords: children rights; Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; equal accessibility; preventive health care for children and youth

Received: July 16, 2012; Accepted: November 22, 2012; Published: March 15, 2013  Show citation