Geographical Locations - Czech Republic

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 311
• CIA World Factbook : Czech Republic

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Czech Republic
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Czech Republic
  - WHO – Progress in the Prevention of Injuries in the WHO European Region: Czech Republic
• UNDP in the Czech Republic

Government

• Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) - IKEM carries out research into various aspects of cardiovascular disease, organ transplantation, diabetes. In conjunction with the Charles University schools of medicine, IKEM has participated in undergraduate training of young investigators and, along with the Postgraduate Medical School, also in postgraduate training. Many of IKEM´s research projects involve cooperation with a number of centres in the Czech Republic and abroad.
• IKEM Cardiology Centre - in the Czech language.
• IKEM Centre for the Study of Diabetes - in the Czech language.
• Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
• Ministry of Environment
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
• Portal of the Public Administration
• Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic

Non-Government

• Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers PRTRs) in the Czech Republic - "The basic meaning of information systems is that if people know the degree and source of pollution they are able to discuss the reduction of pollutant releases or various reparations for the environment damage directly with contaminators. The effectiveness of PRTR systems manifests in different spheres ( e.g. PRTR supports the introduction of the so-called clean technologies, creates new space for consulting firms, strengthens the so-called environmental supervision - either by state or by non-governmental organizations)"

Academic Institutions

• Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine
  - Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
  - Institute for History of Medicine
• Charles University, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
  - Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine
  - Department of Occupational Health
  - Department of Social Medicine
• Health Cities Network of the Czech Republic
• Silesian University Opava
• Masaryk University of Brno, Faculty of Medicine
  - Department of Preventive Medicine
  - Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Administration

National Policy and Related Documents

• Report on the Czech Republic's Implementation of the Outcome of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, 1995 - Last revised October 2005

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Health care systems in transition: Czech Republic
  Rokosova, Martina & Hava, Petr. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy, 2005. The Health Care Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide an analytical description of a health care system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development.
• Relationship between parental locus of control and caries experience in preschool children – cross-sectional survey
  Background: Due to high prevalence and serious impacts, childhood caries represents a public health issue. Behavioural risk factors such as locus of health control have been implicated in the development of the disease; however their association with childhood caries has not been thoroughly studied. The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to assess the relationship between parental locus of health control and caries experience and untreated caries of their preschool children in a representative sample in Czech Republic, adjusting for relevant sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: A representative sample of 285 preschool children and their parents was recruited. Study data included children's dental status recorded in nurseries and parental questionnaires with 13 attitudinal items regarding locus of control (LoC) in caries prevention. The association between parental locus of control and children's caries experience and level of untreated caries was analysed using logistic regression, adjusting for the effect of key sociodemographic variables. Results: There was a statistically highly significant linear trend between increased parental LoC and higher probability of the children to be free from untreated caries, independent from the effect of sociodemographic variables of children and parents. A similar highly statistically significant trend, although not entirely linear, and independent from sociodemographic variables was observed with respect to the chance of the children to be free from caries experience with increasing strength of parental LoC. After full adjustment, children in the strongest parental LoC quintile were 2.81 (1.23–6.42, p< 0.05) times more likely to be free from untreated caries in comparison to the weakest parental LoC quintile and 2.32 (1.02–5.25, p< 0.05) times more likely to be free from caries experience in comparison to the weakest parental LoC quintile. Conclusion: The findings support the hypothesis that higher internal parental LoC is associated with better control of both untreated caries and caries experience in their preschool children and highlight that a more internal LoC within the family is advantageous in the prevention of dental caries. [author abstract] [BMC Public Health 2008, 8: 208]

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Eastern Europe and the NIS