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This study deals with the development and evaluation of healthcare districts, which were implemented in the territory of Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and abolished in the early 1990s due to the reform of the Czech healthcare system in progress at the time. The author of the study examines the legal frame of healthcare districts, their real form and occupation and further the transformation of their structure over time. The study also evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of health districts from the perspective of the patient, the doctor and the state.