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Postawy wobec zdrowia jako jeden z przejawów kompetencji zdrowotnych
Attitudes to health as one of the indicators of health competency

Author(s): Zofia Kubińska, Ana Pańczuk, Anna Ławnik
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej
Keywords: attitudes; health; health education; health competency

Summary/Abstract: Attitudes to health presented in health behaviours of men reveal their beliefs and attitudes towards a variety of health-related values towards themselves and others and, what is important, expose lacks in health competencies. The aim of the article is to present some selected attitudes towards health in literature to show their positive and negative sides. Understanding attitudes towards human health is one of the ways of understanding and explaining the consequences of healthy and unhealthy behaviours towards oneself, others and the environment. The paper presents different attitudes towards health in a tabular and narrative form. It seems that they can be used to empirically verify the attitudes towards being healthy as a manifestation of health competency.

  • Issue Year: 10/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 73-79
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish