Can Cross-Border Healthcare Be Sustainable? An Example from the Czech-Austrian Borderland
| dc.contributor.author | Böhm, Hynek | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kurowska-Pysz, Joanna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-12T08:20:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-12T08:20:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cross-border public services are considered to be one of the possible tools to eliminate the periphery position of border regions. The Czech part of the Gmünd/České Velenice divided twin town faces the problem of very distant healthcare, as the closest hospital on its side of the border is at around a 50 min car-drive, whereas the hospital in Austrian Gmünd is within several minutes reach. This paper analyses whether cross-border healthcare provision could help to eliminate this problem. It describes the EU legislative framework for the cross-border healthcare provision and states that it has been rather underused until now, with a minor exception of the situation between European Communities’ founding members. In the Gmünd/České Velenice context, the functional partnership run by the Lower Austria as the key actor was created. Its ability to use the INTERREG programme has helped to create conditions for a sustainable cross-border healthcare, but only as a partial solution restricted on an outpatient care. The main identified barriers are of administrative nature. To a partial surprise of authors, the mental barrier plays a minor role and could be overcome by systemic measures implemented by partners of this initiative. | cs |
| dc.format.extent | 14 stran | cs |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/su11246980 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-0548-9645 Böhm, Hynek | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.tul.cz/handle/15240/154291 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/24/6980/htm | |
| dc.language.iso | cs | cs |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Sustainability 2019 | |
| dc.subject | Czech-Austrian cross-border cooperation | cs |
| dc.subject | healthcare | cs |
| dc.subject | twin towns | cs |
| dc.subject | cross-border public services | cs |
| dc.subject | EU funds | cs |
| dc.title | Can Cross-Border Healthcare Be Sustainable? An Example from the Czech-Austrian Borderland | cs |
| dc.type | article | |
| local.access | open access | |
| local.identifier.publikace | 6861 | |
| local.relation.issue | 24 | |
| local.relation.volume | 11 |