[Prevalence of tobacco smoking among nurses and the awareness of harmfulness of smoking habit].

Introduction: Smoking is one of several well documented harmful agents that people voluntarily expose to. Nurses are considered by society as the authority in the field of health, what means that they should take advantage of their accomplishments and references in procedures concerned with prophylaxis and smoking habit treatment. For these reasons - nurses' attitude to smoking is so crucial.

[Tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity among patients with Type 2 diabetes].

The present article is focused on tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and necessary physical activity, and how they contribute to everyday life of diabetic patients. The article is based on a study comprising 106 such patients, treated in two leading centres of diabetological care in the City of Poznan. Fifty eight male and 48 female patients were examined.

[Awareness of health hazards in view of demonstrated behavioural patterns both conducive and detrimental to health].

Background: Credibility of physicians depends not only on their knowledge and achievements in therapies they manage but also on daily manifested behavioural patterns, directed at maintaining and augmenting own health as well as prevention of diseases. A patient will hardly trust members of medical staff if their health-related behaviour indeed contradicts the scientific evidence they quote. WORK'S OBJECTIVE: The study is chiefly aimed at establishing whether future physicians' awareness of health hazards, associated with behavioural patterns detrimental to health, e.

[Problem based learning in public health].

The article depicts selected methods of problem based learning. Medical students were asked for their opinion on the way the quality of education was evaluated. Furthermore, the educational objectives in the field of Public Health were analysed.