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Psychiatry in the Czech Republic

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jirí Raboch
Jirí Raboch*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Department, 1st Medical School, Charles University, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Czech Republic, email raboch@mbox.cesnet.cz
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The profound political, social and economic changes that occurred after the end of communist rule in Central Europe in 1989 had a profound influence on Czech psychiatry. In the socialist Czechoslovakia the healthcare system was fully owned, financed and organised by the state, in so-called regional institutes of healthcare. These had obligatory catchment areas of about 100 000 inhabitants and comprised in-patient as well as out-patient care facilities, including psychiatry. The main trends after 1989 were decentralisation of the healthcare system, rapid privatisation, especially of out-patient services, and financing through the newly established health insurance corporations.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 41 - 43
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