Karel Engliš’s Teleological Approach and the Configuration of Health Care Systems

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Karel Engliš’s Teleological Approach and the Configuration of Health Care Systems

Original language description

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.

Czech name

Karel Engliš’s Teleological Approach and the Configuration of Health Care Systems

Czech description

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.

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Economic and Social Policy

ISBN

9788087291276

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

279-290

Publisher name

Vysoká škola PRIGO

Place of publication

Ostrava

Event location

Trojanovice

Event date

Sep 2, 2020

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

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