Project
Increasing the availability of targeted prevention and early diagnosis of specific communicable and non-communicable diseases in selected socially excluded localities with Roma communities
Norwegian funds
Health Programme
EEA Grants 2014-2021
Project objectives
The main objective of the project is to improve access to specialised healthcare for the population of excluded localities, together with a focus on specific non-communicable diseases and the subsequent increased risk of communicable diseases, including childhood injuries, among the Roma ethnic group.
From a societal perspective, this project will not only improve the diagnosis and prevention of these diseases, but will also enable the systemic set-up of primary and specialised care in this hitherto under-analysed and under-addressed area of healthcare in the Czech Republic, i.e. to develop the concept of so-called “health care pathways” for Roma communities in cooperation with leading foreign collaborators from Norway and Romania.
The overall benefit of this project is therefore primarily in the area of improved health care and training of relevant health professionals (field and specialized) and paramedical staff, but also secondarily due to the long-term economic savings of public health insurance funds due to more efficient care settings for members of Roma communities and also due to the rationalization of indications for social care by the cooperating Coordinators of the Regional Health Promotion Centres of the SZU.
The project supports target groups within excluded localities, which include:
(a) Roma ethnic groups of all ages;
b) People at risk of poverty or in poverty from the Roma community or the majority population;
c) The general public – in terms of raising awareness of specific diseases in the Roma population from excluded localities;
d) Professional public – in terms of specifics and indication criteria for diseases that are relatively more common in the Roma population – i.e., practicing paediatricians for children and adolescents, paediatric neurologists, ophthalmologists, cardiologists, clinical paediatricians and paediatric trauma specialists.
We want to help
the Roma community
and excluded localities
