Sickness Insurance: A Practical Guide for Insured Persons and Self-Employed

Martin Škurek


This manual is intended for all self-employed artists who are economically active and want to have a clear understanding of how sickness insurance works. You will learn about your entitlements, how the amount of benefits is calculated, and what factors affect their level. The aim of the manual is to help insured persons and entrepreneurs better navigate the sickness insurance system and correctly assert their entitlements.


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Cirg - about

CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).