Researchers from Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education Report New Studies and Findings in the Area of Public Health (Creating healthy and active life for the elderly in programmes conducted by rural and urban-rural communes in Poland)

2020 SEP 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Health and Medicine - Public Health is now available. According to news originating from Warsaw, Poland, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In Poland, between 1989 and 2018 the number of the elderly increased by over 3.9 million. Demographic changes justify a senior policy focussed on the longest possible social, professional and family activity of the elderly.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, “Directions of undertaken actions should include health policy programmes aimed at creating conditions healthy and active life of the elderly. The programmes should be particularly important in rural areas as the health of rural and urban residents differs. The study presents programmes for creating conditions for a healthy and active life of the elderly run by rural and urban-rural communes in 2012-17. The study was conducted on the basis of existing data analysis. Data from the summary information prepared by voivodes and provided to the Minister of Health about implemented health policy programmes were used. Data on programmes concerning a healthy and active life for the elderly conducted by rural and urban-rural communes between 2012 and 2017 were extracted from the aggregate information. Between 2012 and 2017, 354 programmes were implemented, the most in 2016, and the least in 2015. There were 171 000 people participating in the programmes. The total cost was USD 2 491 664. It can be presumed that in 2016 communes implemented more diagnostic and therapeutic programmes than in 2017.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “A small number of programmes and a small involvement of financial resources in communes with the largest number of the elderly may indicate marginalization of the importance of an active and healthy life for the elderly.”

For more information on this research see: Creating healthy and active life for the elderly in programmes conducted by rural and urban-rural communes in Poland. The European Journal of Public Health, 2020;():. The European Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Oxford Univ Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Michal Waszkiewicz, Dept. of Economics, Law and Management, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Additional authors for this research include Anna Augustynowicz, Slawomir Szopa, Mariola Borowska and Aleksandra Czerw.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa154. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the The European Journal of Public Health is: Oxford Univ Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England.

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