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National Strategy Basic Information
Health 2020 – National Strategy for Health Protection and Promotion and Disease Prevention
Strategy Owner Minister of Health of the Czech Republic
Strategy Development
Administrator
Deputy Health Minister for Public Health Protection and Promotion and Chief Public Health Officer
of the Czech Republic
Strategy Development
Coordinator Director of Department for Strategy and Management of Public Health Protection and Promotion
Period of Strategy
Development October 2012 – November 2013
Strategy Approver Minister of Health, Cabinet, Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Approval Date 16–12–2013 by the Health Ministry, 8–1–2014 by the Cabinet, 20–3–2014 by the Chamber of
Deputies
Approval Format Ministry of Health Management Board, Resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic, Resolution
of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Relating Legislation Act No. 258/2000 Coll., as amended, Act No. 372/2011 Coll., Act No. 373/2011 Coll., Act No. 95/2004
Coll., Act No. 96/2004 Coll.
Period of Implementation 2014–2020
Responsibility for
Implementation
Deputy Health Minister for Public Health Protection and Promotion and Chief Public Health Officer
of the Czech Republic
Implementation
Budget
Health 2020 – National Strategy for Health Protection and Promotion and Disease Prevention
(hereinafter National Strategy or NS Health 2020) is expected to utilize funds provided by the
European Structural and Investment Fund for healthcare in the period of 2014–2020, as well as
subsidies available as part of the European Commission financial programme known as The Third
EU Health Programme 2014–2020. Other costs will be covered as the national budget will allow.
Health 2020 NS will be implemented by way of implementing documents. Each of the documents
will separately undergo a proper approval process and therefore the allocation of adequate funds
will be planned and defined according to specific tasks.
Further funds as well as technical and domain support will be rendered to the Czech Republic
by the World Health Organization as part of Biennial Collaborative Agreements that are entered
into by and between the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Ministry of Health of the Czech
Republic. The closest agreement is planned for 2014–2015 which corresponds to the period of
drafting the National Strategy implementing documents.
The area of eHealth counts on financial support both as part of the Employment Operating Programme
for “soft” investments and as part of IROP where the issues of eHealth will be dealt with
under Priority Axis 3 – Good Territorial Governance and Increase in Public Institutions Effectiveness,
as well as specific task 3.3 – Increase in Public Administration Effectiveness and Transparency by
Way of Enhanced ITC Systems Development and Quality.
Context of Strategy
Development
The National Strategy is based on the World Health Organization programme known as Health 2020.
It is a follow-up to the Long-term Programme for Improving the Health of the Population of the Czech
Republic – Health for All in the 21st Century endorsed by the Czech government in 2002 (Resolution
of the Government of the Czech Republic No. 1046/2002). The evidence-based strategy meets
requirements of the government for Health 21 updating. It builds on the experiences and
recommendations gained from, inter alia, the Performance Report Evaluating the Attainment of
Health 21 Targets from 2003 to 2012 and also expands on the Conceptual Framework for Public
Health Network and Primary Prevention in Public Health Protection adopted by the Ministry of
Health of the Czech Republic in 2013. It reflects the international developments and adheres to the
European Union (EU) and the WHO European Region commitments.
Brief Description
of the Challenge
and the Strategy Contents
The National Strategy is primarily aimed to stabilize the system of disease prevention, health protection
and promotion, and set into motion efficient public health improvement mechanisms that
will be sustainable over long term. The National Strategy Health 2020 elaborates on the vision of
public health system as a dynamic network of stakeholders at all levels of the society, and therefore
its target recipients are not only the institutions of public administration but also all other
components of the society – individuals, communities, non-profit sector, private sector, as well
as educational, scientific and other institutions. It strives to contribute to addressing the complex
health issues of the 21st century with respect to economic, social and demographic developments,
primarily by way of disease prevention and health protection and promotion.
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