Proceedings

Country Name of
Institution
Site Disclosure
language
The Swedish http://www.fhi.se/en/ - Swedish
National
- English
Institute of
Public Health
National http://www.socialstyrelse - Swedish
Board of n.se/english/aboutus - English
Health
Welfare
and
Czech The Ministry http://www.mzcr.cz/En
of Health of
the Czech
Republic
Romania
The Ministry
of Health
National
Medicines
Agency
- Czech
- English
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Information on social responsibility in the
healthcare system
sector are based on individual needs.
Information on the results of an analysis
performed by the Ministry regarding possible
developments of the elderly population's needs for
health care and elderly care over the next forty
years.
Other policy areas that demonstrate social
responsibility: children rights, dental treatment,
disabilities, elderly care, sickness insurance and
public health.
Regarding public health, there are numerous
measures taken by the Government in order to
promote citizens’ ability to make healthy choices,
such as:
- a forum for dialogue on ways in which society
can contribute to healthy eating-habits and
physical activities;
- an advisory board to give advice on alcohol,
drugs, doping and tobacco policy, and a secretariat
to coordinate its work;
Domains of public health objectives: participation;
economic and social prerequisites; conditions
during childhood and adolescence; health in
working life; environments and products; healthpromoting
health services;
Protection against communicable diseases;
sexuality and reproductive health; physical
activity; eating habits and food; tobacco, alcohol,
illicit drugs, doping and gambling
Information on the role to co-ordinate, develop and
follow up the communicable disease prevention
and control in Sweden.
Information on how to report malpractice or
dissatisfaction in Health Care or Social Services.
Main principles of the health service in the Czech
Republic: solidarity, high degree of selfadministration,
multisource financing with major
share of public health insurance, equal availability
of health care for all insured persons and
obligatory vaccination against infectious diseases.
Information on the procedure for filing a
complaint and the authorities to which one can
complain.
Ethical code of patient rights including eleven
main points. A list of ten rights of children patients
as well as of foreigners as parents
http://www.ms.ro/ - RomanianGuide for Healthy Eating, 2006
No clear concern of the Ministry Strategic Plan
2008-2010 for social responsibility
http://www.anm.ro/en/ho
me.html
No information on social responsibility issues
- RomanianQuarterly
informative bulletins in Romanian from
- English within the period 1999-2010
The informative bulletin 2/2010 states the strategic
objectives of the National Medicines Agency,
among which the protection of public health.