- Author:
Paweł Grzywna
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- Author:
Natalia Stępień-Lampa
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- Year of publication:
2019
- Source:
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- Pages:
117-133
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2019.63.08
- PDF:
apsp/63/apsp6308.pdf
The considerations in the article focus on the role of territorial local government in two important spheres of welfare state – in providing access to education, and health care. The authors characterize the situation in Poland after the parliamentary elections won in 2015 by the Law and Justice (PiS). The first part of the study analyses the reforms undertaken in the education system and their consequences for territorial local government, in particular increasing the compulsory education age as well as changing the school system. The second part contains a description of planned and implemented changes in health care.
- Author:
Justyna Kięczkowska
- Institution:
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
- Year of publication:
2022
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
107-126
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2022.76.06
- PDF:
apsp/76/apsp7606.pdf
The aim of this article is to analyse the category of health security in the 2014 and 2020 National Security Strategies of the Republic of Poland. The starting point is the adoption of a proper definition of health security considered as a process in which many elements participate and which is influenced by many factors of social, economic, environmental, etc., nature. This approach captures the specificity of health security as an essential element of state and citizen security. The analysis of the documents proves that the authors do not consider the multifactorial and multidimensional nature of health security, and thus do not indicate in the Strategies the key threats to health and life and, above all, effective solutions introduced at state level, whose main task would be to maintain an adequate level of health security.