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Health is one of the most important things in human life and it also deeply affects its quality. Health prevention and promotion is fundamental both for individuals and the whole society. This thesis analyses the economic approaches to health prevention and promotion. The main aim of this thesis is the analysis of health promotion with respect to colorectal cancer. However, this is not a standard effectiveness analysis but the analysis of the future development in unique Czech environment. According to Czech demographic trends and based on incidence and mortality predictive ARIMA models for colorectal cancer, this work quantifies the increasing costs related to this disease treatment in 2024 and 2028. Also, it makes recommendations on possible spending on possible prevention related to this disease.

This paper aims to explain the factors that affect wages and its size. Analytical method for this explanation is Mincerian's earnings function and its extensions and variations, estimated using the metod of generalized least squares. These earnings functions are constructed from the data of the labor market of the Czech Republic, specifically from the statistical survey of the Information System on Average Earnings of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Czech republic. The main finding of this work is that an additional year of education leads to an increase in worker's wages by about 8%, so education is one of the factors on which wages depend. Other factors may also be practical worker, age or gender. The results show the estimated function of the fact that women in the Czech Republic are wages by 15 to 20% less than men. Also a great impact on wages is fact that the worker is at work at a managerial position or not.