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Increased complexity of the modern battlefield extends requirements for medical support and sustainment that often exceed the capabilities of a single nation. What are the possibilities of increasing efficiency and reducing the costs of providing healthcare to deployed troops, especially in an international environment? This article, which is focused on the experimental work of the Multinational Medical Modular Approach (MMMA), tried to answer this question. One of the methodological approaches used, was a discove...

The Faculty of Military Health Science is one of the three faculties of the University of Defense in the Czech Republic. This Faculty is responsible for education of medics, pharmacists, dentists and paramedics in the Army of the Czech Republic. During their educational program we have to connect two basic aspects of duty in armed forces – work as a member of healthcare service, professional healthcare worker contra work as a soldier, member of military professional armed units. These two disciplines are differe...

The medical support is a really important part of all armies. High quality medical service is a extremely necessary for all military activities. Army of the Czech Republic has a great tradition with medical support. All soldiers in Czech Republic are professionals, and many members of Czech armed forces have experiences with foreign missions. The same situation is in the Military healthcare service. All personnel have to be professional soldiers and we can find these people in all types of military units. We have ...

The aim of this article is to describe health care in areas of armed conflict related to medical planning and preventive medicine and, above all, to consider the serious ethical problem in the area of medical support, when, to whom and how to provide health care during armed conflict. In the context of the place and type of armed conflict (we distinguish a symmetric armed conflict - two opposing armies and an asymmetric armed conflict that can be conceived as an encounter in which one side has a surplus of militar...

Czech Republic is a member of NATO since 1999. The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, in its 2015 framework document entitled 2030 Long-term Outlook for Defence, confirmed the political-military ambitions of the Czech Republic, where one of the priorities was the fulfilment of the obligations arising from NATO membership. These requirements include healthcare requirements. Military medicine has a long tradition and czech military healthcare service is a very important part of many foreign military missions...

The following thesis focuses on the issues regarding life satisfaction and the impact of well-being on physical and mental health of coalition soldiers during their deployment on a military operation in the Middle East area. The authorsВ’ fundamental research question is how the military operational environment affects the life satisfaction of deployed soldiers and thus affects their health. Obviously, life satisfaction is influenced by the military work activities and specifically in an armed conflict environment...

Medical services represent one of the essential preconditions of successful military operations. Work of military healthcare personnel, mainly nurses and paramedics, is very important in prehospital care and has a substantial impact on the overall level of survival and mortality of wounded soldiers. It is very important to separate the work of military healthcare personnel employed in the system of military medical support from the work of those who are deployed on the frontline and provide nursing care to fightin...

The urgent medicine is very young and dynamic discipline of health sciences. Work at department, called Emergency or Departments of urgent medicine has to be very quick and arduous. The main aim of management of this department is continuous increase of quality of health care. Very important parts of medicsВ’ teams there are nurses. The nursesВ’ work is essential component of full system of care. We would like to know; what is the impact of this work on the nurses employed at department. The identification of prob...