The launch of a comprehensive collective monograph on the history of health care was part of a scientific conference with international participation held on Thursday at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia on the topic of Czech-Slovak health care in a historical perspective from an interdisciplinary view. It brought together experts from various scientific fields dealing with the history of health care and health systems, social policy, education of health professions or the development of institutionalised care on a national and international scale. The conference was attended by experts from the Czech and Slovak Republics and also from Ukraine, namely from Zakarpattia.
The conference offered a varied and diverse programme and was associated with the establishment of the Centre for Research on the History of Nursing and Health Care, which is starting to operate at FHSS USB and will become, among other things, a space for meetings and discussions with colleagues from other universities and with foreign partners. It aspires to become a scientific and pedagogical "Hub" for the study of a wide range of issues in the history of nursing and health care, the health care system and the position of the human being in the health care system as well as in the health policy of the state. Dean Ivana Chloubová informed in the introduction of the conference that this centre is being established in the context of promoting and strengthening the quality of education and the quality of doctoral programmes. It is located in the building of FHSS USB U Výstaviště Street, where the main facilities of the Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Emergency Care are located. It will focus on research activities and will also organise professional meetings, such as conferences and workshops to share further experiences and information on new developments in the history of nursing.
The unique book entitled The Health System of the First Czechoslovak Republic in the Context of National and Social Composition - Centre vs. Periphery is the result of extensive research within the framework of an inter-university interdisciplinary scientific project supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, which completes the publication of this book. Researchers from three universities participated in the multi-year research: University of Economics in Prague (Faculty of International Relations), University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Faculty of Philosophy) and University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (Faculty of Health and Social Sciences). The voluminous publication, which comprises almost 1300 pages, presents the development of Czechoslovak public health in the 1920s and 1930s.
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