The epidemiology of the most frequent cancers in Poland in 2015-2021 and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer incidence.

Background: The late diagnosis, despite the improving availability and accessibility of diagnostic procedures during the last decade in Poland and cooperation between specialist cancer centres, remains an unsolved problem. Moreover, the accessibility to healthcare resources and diagnostic procedures has been drastically reduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019-2020. The study aimed to present the epidemiology of the most frequent cancers diagnosed in Poland as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancers' incidence.

The COVID-19 pandemic and epidemiology of the most common cancers in the Subcarpathian and Silesian Provinces of Poland.

Introduction And Objective: The study aimed to assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and slow cancer burden on the healthcare system of the most frequent cancers in the Subcarpathien and Silesian Provinces of southern Poland in the period 2015-2020.

Material And Methods: Depersonalized, epidemiological data were obtained from the branches of the National Health Founf of Poland (NFZ) in the Subcarpathian and Silesian Province. The database contained 7,814,870 healthcare services granted to 385,845 patients with disease entities classified as C00-C97, according to the ICD-10.

Pro-health behaviours - a sense of coherence as the key to a healthy lifestyle in rural areas?

Background: Health-related behaviours and lifestyle are related to the salutogenic concept of health, whereas the major public health problems faced in rural areas include difficulties in encouraging people to a healthy lifestyle.

Objective: The aim of the study is to explore mutual relationships between psychosocial-demographic factors and a sense of coherence.

Material And Method: Two-stage sampling was applied.

Psychosocial factors and health-related behavior among students from South-East Poland.

The aim of this study was to determine the meaning of selected social-demographic factors, such as: gender, place of resident, education, level of knowledge about health and life orientation in modifying the behaviours related to health among university students.The study was conducted among 521 students of two major universities of the South-Eastern Region of Poland. The survey was conducted by means of a diagnostic survey with the use of the Inventory of Health-Related Behaviuor (Zygfryd Juczynski?s IZ ), A.