Economic impacts of early detection and treatment of serious health complications of pregnant women and economic impacts of treatment of preterm born children

The aim of the diploma thesis is to verify the hypothesis whether it is economically efficient to spend resources on the prediction of preterm birth (and its possible postponement) with regard to costs associated with postnatal care for premature children. The hypothesis was verified based on pilot programme “Screening of the risk of preterm birth by implementing the QUiPP program", implemented in the Zemská porodnice u svatého Apolináře”, which goal is to prepare, test and implement this program in practice in the Czech health system, in order to detect the risk of preterm birth by pregnant women and to delay the birth as much as possible.The effectiveness of the QUiPP application was verified within the diploma thesis. Based on the performed analysis, it can be stated that the application has correctly detected 7 of 7 women (100%) who gave birth before the 34th week of pregnancy and 15 of 18 women (83%) who gave birth before the 37th week of pregnancy. that these will give birth prematurely.In order to test the cost-effectiveness of the QUiPP pilot programme, a cost-benefit analysis was carried out, resulting in firstly the economic and secondly sociological acceptability of the project, as premature births and following care for premature children not only entail economic costs but also have a significant impact on quality of life of these children and their families.