Czech dysplasia metatarsal type.

Author's response to reviews Title: Does school-based physical activity decrease overweight and obesity in children aged 6-9 years? A two-year non-randomized longitudinal intervention study in the Czech Republic Authors:

Dark side of the fence: ornamental plants as a source of wild-growing flora in the Czech Republic

Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]; Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sc...

Breastfeeding promotion and protection in the Czech Republic.

The purpose of the article is to present the National Breastfeeding Promotion Programme in the Czech Republic in the course of the last decade. It summarizes the main strategies, education and training activities of the National Breastfeeding Committee, its collaboration with the Government, Parliament, IBFAN and UNICEF. The article reviews the relevant studies on infant feeding which illustrat...

WOMEN AND SCIENCE: Review of the situation in the Czech Republic

The scientific system in the Czech Republic has undergone dramatic changes during the nineties, unparalleled in comparable systems of the EU countries. These changes, however, have destabilised it greatly as far as the functionality of the system is concerned. At present, the term „R&D system in the Czech Republic“ may only be considered a working title for a set of partial, mutually rather unc...

Primary health care in the Czech Republic: brief history and current issues

The objective of this paper is to describe the recent history, current situation and perspectives for further development of the integrated system of primary care in the Czech Republic. The role of primary care in the whole health care system is discussed and new initiatives aimed at strengthening and integrating primary care are outlined. Changes brought about by the recent reform processes ar...