The standard of behaviour, moral commitment to patients and colleagues can be considered within the framework of mutual satisfaction as decisive. Since the second half of the 20th century views regarding duties of doctors and health professionals changed profoundly. In this context codexes are formulated which are based on that classical oath of Hippocrates and only loosely respect in practice its general emphasis on morality. The results are due to the gradual social and political development, its technical advances when the limiting factor of availability of medicine is the state economy, which is closely associated with the standard of the provided quality of health care. The quality of health care is therefore conceived as one of the most important criteria of every health system expressing the standard of provided services.

        Key words: ethical codexes – technical progress – educational level – social and political development – state economics – quality of health care – conditions for influencing control of health care standard