Performance Evaluation of the Residential Social Services

Import 23/08/2017Diplomová práce je zaměřena na hodnocení výkonnosti pobytových sociálních služeb. Cílem práce je provedení analýzy výkonnosti a její zhodnocení zaměřenou na technickou efektivnost vybraných domovů pro seniory působících jako příspěvkové organizace Moravskoslezského kraje za období 2011 – 2015. Teoretická část práce je zaměřena na problematiku výkonnosti v sociálních službách a teoretickou charakteristiku sociálních služeb v České republice včetně pojednání o kvalitě a způsobu jejího hodnocení. V praktické části práce je analýza provedena na základě metody obalu dat (DEA), a to v rámci dvou modelů - vstupně orientovaného modelu (Model A) a výstupově orientovaného modelu (Model B), vždy s orientací na konstantní a variabilní výnosy z rozsahu.The thesis focuses on the evaluation of the performance of the social services. The main goal of the thesis is to analyze performance and to evaluate the technical efficiency of the selected retirement homes functioning as funded organizations of Moravian-Silesian Region from the years of 2011 to 2015. The theoretical part of the thesis is then focused on the performance and theoretical characteristics of the social services in the Czech Republic, including a review of quality of the services and description of the system used to evaluate those criteria. The practical part analyses the data using the data envelopment analysis (DEA), focusing on two data models - The input-oriented model (Model A) and output-oriented model (Model B), both focusing on constant and variable returns to scale.153 - Katedra veřejné ekonomikyvýborn

Development of Collection of Excise Tax on Tobacco Products

Import 22/07/2015Bakalářská práce je zaměřena na vývoj inkasa spotřební daně z tabákových výrobků. Cílem práce je zjistit, jak se vyvíjí spotřeba tabákových výrobků a výběr spotřební daně z tabákových výrobků v souvislosti s dosažením minimálních sazeb stanovených Evropskou unií. Tabákové výrobky patří mezi jedny z nejčastěji používaných návykových látek ve společnosti a výběr této spotřební daně představuje významnou položku v příjmech státního rozpočtu. Teoretická část práce obsahuje historii a základní vymezení spotřební daně dle legislativy, vydané předpisy Rady EU a vývoj sazeb daně z tabákových výrobků po vstupu České republiky do Evropské unie. V praktické části je provedena analýza vývoje inkasa daně z tabákových výrobků za období 2004 – 2014 včetně zhodnocení vlivů, které na něj působí.The bachelor thesis is aimed at collection development of excise duty on tobacco products. The aim of the thesis is to learn about the development of consumption of tobacco products and collection of excise duty on tobacco products in relation to achieving the minimum rates set by the European Union. Tobacco products rank among the most frequently used addictive substances in society and collection of this excise duty represents a significant part of the state income. The theoretical framework includes the history and basic definition of excise duty according to legislation, rules issued by the Council of the European Union and development of rates of duty on tobacco products after the Czech Republic became a member of the European Union. The practical part includes analysis of development of collection of excise duty on tobacco products for the period 2004 - 2014 including evaluation of the influences.153 - Katedra veřejné ekonomikyvýborn

Information gaps in the market for social services: retirement homes in the Czech Republic

The research address a partial issue of market failure in the form of information asymmetry. Within the public sector, social services, together with health services, belong to typical sectors where the information superiority of supply against demand is detected. The presence of asymmetrical/imperfect information within the social care has a significant effect on retired people who demand the services of retirement homes, and this effect occurs before as well as during the consumption of this service. The paper aims to identify and evaluate the information gaps of 159 official websites of retirement homes in the Czech Republic that are related to the supply of offered services. The evaluated websites of the retirement homes were selected in a way including all three types of the legal form of retirement homes (semi-budgetary units of regions, limited liability companies, church legal entities) that are present in this category of social services in the Czech Republic. The multi-criteria evaluation, performed by using the TOPSIS method, included 14 types of information (criteria). The TOPSIS method is based on the selection of the variant that is the closest one to the ideal variant and that is characterized by a vector. The results show that retirement homes insufficiently disclose several types of information. These include the conditions of acceptance into the retirement home, annual reports, some types of contact information, internal rules of the home, and the electronic link for the communication with the retirement home. In relation to the evaluation of the total level of 14 types of information being disclosed on the websites of retirement homes, it was revealed that 3% of them achieve an excellent level, 30% achieve a lesser than excellent level, 60% achieve a low level, and 7% of retirement homes achieve a very low level.Web of Science19319117

Evaluation of technical efficiency of residential social services according to the Data Envelopment Analysis model.

Předmětem doktorské disertační práce jsou pobytové sociální služby, konkrétně domovy pro seniory a domovy se zvláštním režimem, které jsou určeny pro seniory (osoby ve věku 65+). Výzkum reaguje na skutečnost, že se Česká republika v posledních letech potýká s demografickým stárnutím obyvatelstva a rostoucím počtem osob s diagnostikovanou demencí. Tyto skutečnosti mají vliv na výrazné zvýšení poptávky po poskytování dlouhodobé sociální péče a po umístění v pobytových sociálních zařízeních. Očekává se, že vzhledem k demografickému vývoji se bude poptávka po místech v pobytových sociálních zařízeních ještě výrazněji zvyšovat. Současně pobytová sociální zařízení čelí výzvám v podobě rostoucích provozních nákladů a vyššího tlaku na poskytování služeb v očekávané kvalitě. Jednou z možností, jak se lze s danými výzvami vypořádat, je zvýšit efektivnost a produktivitu jednotlivých služeb a procesů. Doktorská práce je rozdělena na dvě části, a to ve smyslu definovaného hlavního cíle. První část je zaměřena na zhodnocení nabídky pobytových sociálních služeb pro seniory na úrovni okresů jednotlivých krajů za období 2014-2018, která je následně hodnocena ve vztahu k potenciální poptávce. K testování této problematiky je využita lineární korelační a regresní analýza. Výsledky prokázaly, že nabídka sledovaných pobytových sociálních služeb pro seniory není na území okresů některých krajů ve vztahu k velikosti potenciální poptávky dostatečná. Ve druhé části výzkumu je modelována technická efektivnost vybraného vzorku 299 poskytovatelů pobytových sociálních služeb pro seniory prostřednictvím modelů Data Envelopment Analysis a Malmquistova indexu v rámci tří definovaných modelů. Hodnocený vzorek představuje zhruba 37 % zařízení pobytových sociálních služeb pro seniory z hlediska jejich celkového počtu v České republice. Z výsledků technické efektivnosti vyplývá, že vybraná pobytová sociální zařízení pro seniory tendují spíše k neefektivnosti.The subject of the doctoral dissertation is residential social services, specifically homes for the elderly and special regime homes, which are intended for the elderly (persons aged 65 years and older). The research responds to the fact that the Czech Republic has been struggling in recent years with the demographic ageing of the population and the growing number of people diagnosed with dementia. These facts have had an impact on a significant increase in demand for the provision of long-term social care and placement in residential social facilities. It is expected that due to demographic changes, demand for places in residential social facilities will increase more significantly. At the same time, residential social facilities face challenges in the form of rising operating costs and greater pressure to provide services of the expected quality. One way to deal with these challenges is to increase the efficiency and productivity of individual services and processes. The doctoral thesis is divided into two parts with respect to its main aim. The first part is focused on the evaluation of the supply of residential social services for the elderly at the level of the districts of the Czech Republic for the period 2014–2018, which is then assessed in relation to potential demand. Linear correlation and regression analysis are used to test this issue. The results showed that the supply of monitored residential social services for the elderly is not sufficient in some districts in relation to the size of potential demand. The second part of the thesis contains research models assessing the technical efficiency of the selected sample of 299 providers of residential social services for the elderly using the Data Envelopment Analysis model and the Malmquist Index within three defined models. The sample included in the analysis represents 37 % of residential social facilities for the elderly of the total number of the facilities. The results of technical efficiency show that selected residential social facilities for the elderly tend to be inefficient.153 - Katedra veřejné ekonomikyvyhově

Information gaps in the market for social services: retirement homes in the Czech Republic

The research address a partial issue of market failure in the form of information asymmetry. Within the public sector, social services, together with health services, belong to typical sectors where the information superiority of supply against demand is detected. The presence of asymmetrical/imperfect information within the social care has a significant effect on retired people who demand the services of retirement homes, and this effect occurs before as well as during the consumption of this service. The paper aims to identify and evaluate the information gaps of 159 official websites of retirement homes in the Czech Republic that are related to the supply of offered services. The evaluated websites of the retirement homes were selected in a way including all three types of the legal form of retirement homes (semi-budgetary units of regions, limited liability companies, church legal entities) that are present in this category of social services in the Czech Republic. The multi-criteria evaluation, performed by using the TOPSIS method, included 14 types of information (criteria). The TOPSIS method is based on the selection of the variant that is the closest one to the ideal variant and that is characterized by a vector. The results show that retirement homes insufficiently disclose several types of information. These include the conditions of acceptance into the retirement home, annual reports, some types of contact information, internal rules of the home, and the electronic link for the communication with the retirement home. In relation to the evaluation of the total level of 14 types of information being disclosed on the websites of retirement homes, it was revealed that 3% of them achieve an excellent level, 30% achieve a lesser than excellent level, 60% achieve a low level, and 7% of retirement homes achieve a very low level

Determination of gaps in the spatial accessibility of nursing services for persons over the age of 65 with lowered self-sufficiency: Evidence from the Czech Republic.

The subject of this research is one of the main preconditions for the provision of high-quality social care services for people over the age of 65 with lowered self-sufficiency. It involves the spatial accessibility of formally established nursing services examined in 76 districts of the Czech Republic. The aim of this article is to identify and evaluate the gaps in spatial accessibility of the selected residential and outpatient-clinic services at the level of districts in individual regions of the Czech Republic in 2018. A three-phase analysis was performed, including an ArcGIS network analysis, multi-criteria evaluation according to the TOPSIS method, and a correlation analysis encompassing the confidence interval gained via the Bootstrap method. Seven indicators were selected-recipients of the allowance for the care, capacity of residential and outpatient-clinic services, and four indicators of accessibility via individual and public transport within the set time intervals. The results show good availability of residential care (no gap) within 30 min. by individual and public transport in most districts (94%). However, day services centers do not have a space gap in only 28% of districts by individual transport, and 8% of districts by public transport. In the case of day care centers, 54% of districts by individual transport, and 29% of districts by public transport do not have a space gap. The results also show that the level of spatial availability of care (gaps) in the district is not related to the number of people aged 65+ with reduced self-sufficiency in the district. On the contrary, the correlation analysis shows that with the growing number of people aged 65+ with reduced self-sufficiency in the district, the capacity of residential and outpatient services increases and the gaps in spatial accessibility do not decrease