Cent Eur J Public Health 2010, 18(2):63-69 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3561

Health Promotion for Older People in the Czech Republic in a European Perspective

Eva Křížová1, Piotr Brzyski2, Charlotte Strumpel3, Jenny Billings4, Gert Lang5
1 Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
2 Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
3 Austrian Red Cross, Vienna, Austria
4 Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent, UK
5 Research Institute of the Red Cross, Vienna, Austria

This article describes health promotion for older people in the Czech Republic from the European perspective. It is based on findings from the European project healthPROelderly. Implementation of health promotion in the Czech republic as a new public health concept is outlined from the historical point of view. Structures and processes of health promotion in the Czech Republic are described in the context of social policy, demography and health. The European project healthPROelderly is presented and the outcomes of an international literature search statistically analysed. Participating countries were divided into three macro-regions according to their geographical location and political and historical tradition - Mediterranean, West-European and formerly East-European macro-regions. The outcome of correspondence analysis partially confirms the hypothesis on the cultural background of the health promotion activities and strategies. Concerning themes addressed by health promotion projects most countries belonging to the Mediterranean or "Western European" macro-regions have concentrated on similar themes whereas this is not valid for the countries of the "Former Eastern European" macro-region. The hypothesis on macro-regional similarities in relation to settings of health promotion projects was not confirmed. In the conclusions the location of the Czech Republic in an international perspective is discussed and three Czech selected best practice projects are evaluated in relation to the statistical findings.

Keywords: health promotion, older people, international comparison, European research healthPROelderly, social policy, health status, demography

Received: December 31, 2008; Revised: April 8, 2009; Accepted: April 8, 2009; Published: June 1, 2010  Show citation

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Křížová E, Brzyski P, Strumpel C, Billings J, Lang G. Health Promotion for Older People in the Czech Republic in a European Perspective. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2010;18(2):63-69. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3561. PubMed PMID: 20939254.
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