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Kościół w służbie chorym
The church in the service of the sick

Author(s): Jerzy Zając
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego (TNFS)
Keywords: Healthcare; Social doctrine of the church; Help the sick; Long-term care home

Summary/Abstract: The century preceding the social processes of transformation in Poland in the 1990s prompted via new state and church legislation the creation and equal functioning of public and private health care facilities, including those run by church bodies. The reactivated Church institution, Caritas, along with the Diocesan Caritas of Plock, brought to life new forms of care for the sick and those in need of medical care and their families. The health care crisis in Poland, as it were, forced the genesis of such activities.

  • Issue Year: 34/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 125-140
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish