CAPACITY AVAILABILITY OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
CAPACITY AVAILABILITY OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: REGIONAL DIFFERENCES

Author(s): Ivana Vaňková, Iveta Vrabková
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Welfare systems, Health and medicine and law, Welfare services
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: availability; Mental health; Psychiatric care; Region; TOPSIS Technique;
Summary/Abstract: The concept of psychiatric care was formulated already in 2000. In 2013, this original concept was revised under the name of the Strategy for the Reform of Psychiatric Care, the main goal of which is the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care, the provision and increase of ambulatory and acute inpatient care capacities. The aim of the article is to evaluate regional differences in the capacity availability of psychiatric care in the regions of the Czech yoRepublic for the years 2012 and 2021. To evaluate the availability of psychiatric care capacities in the regions of the Czech Republic, the TOPSIS Technique was used within two models, M1 and M2. The models differed in the set weight of individual criteria. The results show that the best availability of psychiatric care capacities was in the capital city of Prague, followed by the Pilsen Region and the Vysočina Region. Conversely, the worst rated regions in terms of capacity availability include the Central Bohemian Region and the Zlín Region. Within the monitored years (2012, 2021), there was an improvement in the availability of capacities in all regions of the Czech Republic, with the exception of the Olomouc region.

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