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On the Guideline on Spiritual Care of the Ministry of Health
Author(s): Damián NěmecSubject(s): Constitutional Law, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Společnost pro církevní právo
Keywords: health care; Ministry of Health; guideline; pastoral care; bedside medical facilities; health chaplaincy; churches and religious societies; Czech Bishops’ Conference; Ecumenical Council of Churches; p
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the Guideline on Spiritual Care in Bedside Medical Facilities of Medical Service Providers from 13th April 2017 issued by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. The author summarizes the development of regulatory efforts and analyses the foundations of the text of the guideline. He then focuses on the status and understanding of spiritual care in health care, its organizational provisions and its main providers: hospital chaplains. The issuing of the guideline represents significant progress in the provision of holistic health care and in the necessary regulation of spiritual care in the health care sector in the Czech Republic, although it will certainly need some specification and completion sooner or later.
Journal: Revue církevního práva
- Issue Year: XXIII/2017
- Issue No: 68
- Page Range: 11-28
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Czech
