POLICY FOR CREATING HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Cover Image

POLITYKA KREOWANIA PROZDROWOTNEGO STYLU ŻYCIA WŚRÓD DZIECI I MŁODZIEŻY
POLICY FOR CREATING HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Author(s): Katarzyna Szalonka
Subject(s): Sociology, Social development, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Welfare services
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: lifestyle; human's health; children; adolescents; prophylaxis;

Summary/Abstract: The National Health Programme having been implemented since 1996 and is aimed at improving the health conditions of Poles and creation of health-centered lifestyle. Human health is determined by a proper diet, physical activities, personal hygiene, the basic skills of managing free time and combating stress effectively, taking prophylactic measures and rational drug consumption. The health is regarded both as the social capital and as the consumption and investment welfare. In the first decade of the twenty-first century Grossman proposed the creation of a healthy lifestyle among children and adolescents. The paper presents the results of scientific research on the health- centered behavior of the children and adolescents in Dolny Śląsk [Lower Silesia].

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 171-181
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish