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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 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: 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: 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: Březinová, Kristina, Dana Hamplová, Jitka Buriánková
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Authors: Stöckelová, T., Trnka, S.
Since the concept of ‘local biologies’ was proposed in the 1990s, it has been used to examine biosocial processes that transform human bodies in similar and different ways around the globe. This paper explores understandings of biosocial differentiation and convergence in the cas...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
Covid-19 významně ohrozil nejen zdraví obyvatelstva a fungování zdravotnictví, ale i mnoho dalších oblastí lidského života. Epidemiologická opatření narušila běžné fungování společnosti a odrazila se i ve fungování kriminality a bezpečnostních složek. Proměny a dopady t...
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Authors: Patricia Hooper, David Kocman, Sue Carr, Carolyn Tarrant
AbstractBACKGROUND:Enabling healthcare staff to report concerns is critical for improving patient safety. Junior doctors are one of the groups least likely to engage in incident reporting. This matters both for the present and for the future, as many will eventually be in leaders...
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Authors: Prokeš, Michaela
Introduction: Sleep is especially important to overall well-being. Some aspects of sleep have been well documented, for example sleep quantity and its effect on well-being, but the value of a consistent sleep routine remains poorly studied. University students are a populati...
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Authors: Špaček, Ondřej, Jiří Šafr
Cílem této knihy je představit laické veřejnosti přístupným způsobem práci sociologů, demografů, ekonomů, politologů a geografů, kteří působí v Sociologickém ústavu AV ČR, v.v.i. Autorům a autorkám nejde o předložení ucelené zprávy o české společnosti, ale spíše o odpovědi na něk...
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Authors: Dixon-Woods M, Kocman D, Brewster L, Willars J, Laurie G, Tarrant C.
AbstractBACKGROUND:Biomedical research increasingly relies on long-term studies involving use and re-use of biological samples and data stored in large repositories or "biobanks" over lengthy periods, often raising questions about whether and when a re-consenting process should b...

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