A Single-Center Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Organization of Healthcare Service Delivery to Patients with Head and Neck Cancer.

The aim of this study was to identify and assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery of the 4th Military Teaching Hospital in Wroclaw for whom oncological treatment was planned by a cancer case board between March 2018 and February 2022. We analysed the medical records of 625 patients. In order to verify whether the relationships between the analysed features were statistically significant, the chi-square test of independence and the Student's -test for independent samples were used ( < 0.

Differences in the effects of anti-tobacco health education programme in the areas of knowledge, attitude and behaviour, with respect to nicotinism among boys and girls.

Introduction: Health education used for increasing the effectiveness of intervention actions should cover a number of factors which exert an effect on learning.

Objective: Recognition of the extent to which gender may determine the effects of an anti-tobacco health education programme.

Material And Methods: The intervention study was undertaken in May 2007, and covered 859 first-year schoolchildren in Białystok.

Effect of an anti-tobacco programme of health education on changes in health behaviours among junior high school adolescents in Białystok, Poland.

Introduction: School health education programmes are among the instruments for the prevention of tobacco smoking among children and adolescents. Knowledge obtained in evaluation studies of these programmes indicates the degree of their effectiveness and serves to improve their quality.

Objective: Recognition and evaluation of the effect of two-year anti-tobacco programme of health education on the changes in the level of knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of adolescents.

The prevalence of tobacco smoking among public health students at Medical University of Białystok.

The rate of cigarettes' consumption in the world is regularly decreasing, although it remains high. In spite of the fashion for non-smoking, younger and younger people start to smoke. It is important that health related major students' behaviour is a social example.