Background Post-communist health care reforms and the break-up of Czechoslovakia have been studied from various perspectives, but little research has addressed the impact on health system performance. This paper investigates the quality and performance of the Slovak and Czech health systems before and after 1989, including the year of separation in 1993, using the concept of ‘avoidable’ mortality.

Ambient air quality in the present-day Czech Republic (CR), one of two succession countries Czechoslovakia post-1993, was perceived as a major problem with severe human health and environmental consequences, particularly between 1970s 1990s [...]

Nations, Conglomerates, Why after the breakup of such multinational states as and Empires the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia -whose The Tradeoff between Income republicsjustified their and Sovereignty decision by claiming that they wanted to regain their Branko Milanovic sovereignty did the new states express strong desire to join the European Union, thus dissipating the very sove...

Teschen disease (previously also known as Klobouk’s disease), actually called Teschovirus encephalomyelitis, is a virulent fatal viral disease of swine, characterized by severe neurological disorders of encephalomyelitis. It was initially discovered in the Teschen district of North-Eastern Moravia. During the 1940s and 1950s it caused serious losses to the pig production industry in Europe. The...