Course: Legal Protection of Health

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Course title Legal Protection of Health
Course code KPS/POZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kišš Petr, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Sudová Jana, Mgr.
  • Kočí Jana, Mgr.
Course content
1. Introduction; meeting the question of Legal Protection of Health; information about conditions of course study 2. The basic principles and legal concepts of Legal Protection of Health 3. Internationally-legal grounds of the Legal Protection of Health; the basic principles resulting from The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; the Legal Protection of Health in the Czech Constitution System ? above all, the article 31 of the Charter of Fundamental rights. 4. The regulatory arrangement of the Legal Protection of Health - Public Health Act, General health protection law, Smoke-free law, ect. 5. The Czech Health Insurance System; competence of healthcare providers; the doctor's free choice. 6. Liability for health damage according to the Civil Code; protection of personality according to article 11 of the Civil Code; legal regulations of protection of personality according to the new Civil Code bill. 7. Health protection according to the Labour Code - protection of occupational health and safety; liability in labour-law relations. 8. Health protection according to the Penal Law and the Violation Law; offence against the life and the health. 9. Protection of patients' rights in health care. Health care in International law and Czech system of law. 10. Legal regulations of the transplantation acts and the tissue demand; the assisted reproductive technology; the abortion; the sterilization and the castration in the Czech Republic. 11. Health documentation. 12. Written test.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, One-to-One tutorial, Students' self-study, Self-study of literature
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 30 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
General knowledge within the scope of Social Sciences.
learning outcomes
Students are able to: - explain the basic principles and legal concepts of Legal Protection of Health, - describe the Czech health care system, - explain and compare the basic principles of liability for health damage and protection of personality according to the Civil Code, the Labor Code, the Penal Law and the Violation Law, - explain the legal regulations of the transplantation acts and the tissue demand, the assisted reproductive technology, the abortion, the sterilization and the castration in the Czech Repulic, - evaluate patients' rights in the Czech health care system.
teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Self-study of literature
One-to-One tutorial
assessment methods
Test
Recommended literature
  • Císařová, Dagmar,; Sovová, Olga. Trestní právo a zdravotnictví. 2., upr. a rozš. vyd. Praha : Orac, 2004. ISBN 80-86199-75-4.
  • Doležal, Tomáš; Doležal, Adam. Ochrana práv pacienta ve zdravotnictví. Praha : Linde, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7201-684-6.
  • MACH, J. a kol. Zdravotnictví a právo, komentované předpisy. Praha: Lexik Nexis, 2005.
  • ŠTĚPÁN, J. Právní odpovědnost ve zdravotnictví..
  • ŠTĚPÁN, J. Právo a moderní lékařství.. Praha: Panorama, 1989.


Study plans that include the course
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