Changes in the health situation in the czech republic, estonia and slovenia during the transition period

The objective of the study is to evaluate changes in the health situation in the most developed European post-Communist countries created on the ruins of larger states, i.e. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. On the one hand, the collapse of the system of Communist states brought freedom and gave their citizens a chance for a better life. But, on the other hand, it also brought some dangers. One of them was the negative consequences of the breakup of larger organisms. In addition, in the case of newly created countries, the simultaneous necessity to create statehood with all its attributes was an additional factor impeding reforms (Lorber 2010). First of all, changes in the population’s situation (including health) in European post-Communist countries have been affected by the reforms that have been carried out (economic, political and social) and also by cultural determinants. Yet, on the other hand, the consequences of the dissolution of states (direct ones such as warfare, and indirect ones such as cutting economic links) have also, in principle, adversely infl uenced the health situation of their people.