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The study was aimed at the assessment of trends in medicines use, taken for pain ailments (headache and stomachache), negative emotional conditions (sleeplessness, nervousness, depression), and lack of energy among adolescents.An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 15-year-old students in random sample of middle school classes from Warsaw. In 2004 data were taken from 722 students, in 2008...
An influence of the 3-months weight-reduction programme on vitamin D concentration in obese prepubertal children was evaluated. The programme consisted of dietary and physical activity modifications and behaviour therapy including individual psychological care for the child and its family. The recommended daily intake from low-energy diet was 1200–1400 kcal/day. Vitamin D intake was lower in obese...
Projects that aim to encourage healthy lifestyles among children or adolescents require a multilateral approach that targets values, beliefs, and attitudes. This kind of influence requires close well-planned cooperation between families, schools, peers, and youth organizations. The distribution of roles and tasks – as well as efficient communication as an element of good cooperation, partnerships,...
The participation of young people in the research process can be empowering for the participants and valuable for the research outcomes. This paper presents the methods used and outcomes of involving youth in the development of priorities for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study in Ireland.Two participative workshops were conducted with young people: the first focused on identifiying...
Preschool period is a stage of intensive development of the food preferences and the pro-health attitudes associated with normal eating behaviors and consequently eating habits in adulthood. The aim of the study was to assess eating behaviors of children attending kindergartens in relation to selected socio-economic factors in their families.The study was conducted in a group of 325 children, whose...
This article assesses Poland’s performance with respect to the level of child violence prevention applying public health approach, based on an examination of current national policies to support the prevention of violence toward children (0–18 years) in July 2013. The analysis included the child violence surveillance, leadership and capacity, law and its’ enforcement, children’s rights protection,...
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between level of social support (from teachers and peers) and perception of school environment: general attitude toward school, academic achievement and level of school stress. The study was conducted in 2013 within the framework of the international HBSC study, on a group of 3346 students aged 11–15 years; 47.7% boys; 17.6% with chronic conditions...
The aim of this paper is to present the patterns of the health behaviour in adolescents from Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia). The data concerning 5,588 15-year-old students were used, surveyed during the 2009/10 school year within HBSC study (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children). Five clusters with different behaviour patterns were found. The most positive model...
In the last few years, adaptive sport and adaptive physical education as forms of physiotherapy have gained increasing interest around the world and also in Poland. This thesis discusses application of alpine skiing in social rehabilitation for the persons with disabilities.It describes how skiing can help overcoming problems with personal and social behavior and influence on looking at once life,...
Aim: To assess, in the context of other socialization factors, importance of alcohol specific parenting practices for adolescents drinking behaviors.Method: Questionnaire data collected from the random sample of Warsaw 15-year old students (N = 984) on: alcohol use and getting drunk, perception of parental rules and attitudes toward alcohol use by a child, child’s monitoring and support by parents,...
The authors of the article discuss the terms of sexual health, reproductive health and sexual rights with reference to young people. They describe the health problems connected with psychosexual adolescence. Then the authors, on the base of their own research, present risky (anti-health) sexual behaviors of young people both in the real world and in the Internet as well as the consequences such as...
This article assesses Poland’s performance with respect to the level of adoption, implementation and enforcement of national level policy actions to address adolescence peer to peer violence prevention. The assessment is based on an examination of current national policies to support the prevention of violence amongst adolescents, accurate to July 2013. The analysis included the assessment of adolescents...
The article provides a comparison of methods of hospital services’ supply coordination in three European countries: the United Kingdom (on England example), Germany and France. The coordination methods are defined as both the processes of planning the current hospital services supply levels (e.g. number of hospitals’ beds by speciality) and regulations regarding the investment projects within this...
The aim of this article is to present the basic characteristics of the U.S. hospital sector (with an emphasis on structure, utilization level and the system of financing) as well as its current challenges and reform trends. Hospitals in the U.S. constitute a complicated and heterogeneous subsystem. There are diverse types of hospitals, functioning independently or in networks, developing innovative...
An access to health care remains an important social issue for many years. In practice, the access is identified with waiting time and waiting lists for health services. The system working at present, which was introduced by virtue of a set of regulatory documents from years 2004–2005, is contested, mainly as concerns availability to valid and trustworthy information about waiting time to services...
Despite the continuous advances of medicine and higher safety standards for patients, nosocomial infections are a major problem accompanying of treatment process. Infected patients are exposed to prolonged hospital stay, require additional medical procedures, theresofore their treatment and care are associated with additional costs for health facility. In the present study the number of outbreaks...
Contemporarily the increasing role of marketing in the process of hospital management may be observed due to the lastly undertaken processes of systemic changes. The paper describes this phenomena on the basis of the Children’s University Hospital of Kraków, one of the leading polish centers in pediatrics. Authors analyze the case of a public clinical hospital asking if marketing activities should...
The article is aimed at presenting the Polish health care managers’ profile and describing postgraduate education offer available to this group. As a result of the changes in health care system the managers need to continuously gain new qualifications. They are expected not only to provide more effective management methods, but also to minimize the costs and achieve the health care units goals. It...
This article describes the results of research (conducted using a questionnaire) on the operation of boards of trustees in non-public local-government-owned hospitals. CEOs of the above-mentioned hospitals have positive opinions about the operation of the boards, recognizing them to be useful both for the owner authorities and the units themselves. Their supervisory function is particularly highly...
In 2006 National Institute of Hygiene1, prepared a study entitled “Indicators needed for the project to create a hospitals’ network with elements of demographic analysis and population health status”. The study determined the theoretical basis for forming a hospitals’ network and the basis of the law/the act about “the hospitals’ network”. Results of the study showed that between hospitals there were...
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