MERTL, Jan. Karel Engliš’s Teleological Approach and the Configuration of Health Care Systems. In Veronika Nálepová. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Economic and Social Policy. Ostrava: Vysoká škola PRIGO. p. 279-290. ISBN 978-80-87291-27-6. 2020.
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Original name Karel Engliš’s Teleological Approach and the Configuration of Health Care Systems
Name in Czech Teleologický přístup Karla Engliše a konfigurace systémů zdravotní péče
Name (in English) Karel Engliš’s Teleological Approach and the Configuration of Health Care Systems
Authors MERTL, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Ostrava, Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Economic and Social Policy, p. 279-290, 12 pp. 2020.
Publisher Vysoká škola PRIGO
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Original language Czech
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 50200 5.2 Economics and Business
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW URL
RIV identification code RIV/04274644:_____/20:#0000754
Organization unit University of Finance and Administration
ISBN 978-80-87291-27-6
Keywords (in Czech) Zdravotní systém, teleologický přístup, fiskální politika, zdravotní pojištění
Keywords in English Health System; Teleological Approach; Fiscal Policy; Health Insurance
Tags AR 2020-2021, odmeny_2021, RIV_2022, xD2
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
This paper’s aim is to reintroduce the teleological approach formulated by professor Karel Engliš approximately hundred years ago showing it as a highly useful analytical tool for social systems, including the health one. Engliš enriched the positive and normative approach of scientific analysis with teleological one, using postulates based on the principle of finality, and distinguished it both from positive causality and narrow normative measures or legal norms. Because health economics often struggles with handling the plurality of health systems, it is worth to search in theory for approaches that will improve this deficit and Engliš’s approach has shown as perfectly suitable for this purpose. We therefore briefly explain the logic behind it, that was thoroughly defended in the literature in 1920s and 1930s. Then we search for specific attributes of four different health systems and sum the up into a table which briefly combines social models, fiscal and tax policy measures and ideals/postulates that those systems are based on. The result is better understanding of the health systems configuration and solid theoretical knowledge behind it, easing the need for finding the optimal or “most effective” health system by recognizing that more important is to know which properties and characteristics it should have and which principles it is built on.
Abstract (in English)
This paper’s aim is to reintroduce the teleological approach formulated by professor Karel Engliš approximately hundred years ago showing it as a highly useful analytical tool for social systems, including the health one. Engliš enriched the positive and normative approach of scientific analysis with teleological one, using postulates based on the principle of finality, and distinguished it both from positive causality and narrow normative measures or legal norms. Because health economics often struggles with handling the plurality of health systems, it is worth to search in theory for approaches that will improve this deficit and Engliš’s approach has shown as perfectly suitable for this purpose. We therefore briefly explain the logic behind it, that was thoroughly defended in the literature in 1920s and 1930s. Then we search for specific attributes of four different health systems and sum the up into a table which briefly combines social models, fiscal and tax policy measures and ideals/postulates that those systems are based on. The result is better understanding of the health systems configuration and solid theoretical knowledge behind it, easing the need for finding the optimal or “most effective” health system by recognizing that more important is to know which properties and characteristics it should have and which principles it is built on.
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