In Search for a Model of Health in Poland after WW2 – from the State’s Health Service to the Public Health Care (1945–2009) Cover Image

W poszukiwaniu modelu ochrony zdrowia w powojennej Polsce – od państwowej służby zdrowia do publicznej opieki zdrowotnej (1945 – 2009)
In Search for a Model of Health in Poland after WW2 – from the State’s Health Service to the Public Health Care (1945–2009)

Author(s): Urszula Kozłowska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: health care; People’s Poland; III Republic of Poland

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present a model of health care, its configuration during People’s Poland and the III Republic of Poland. In the years 1945–2009 Polish health care system underwent profound changes and was affected by country’s social, economic and political situation. In Poland the model of health care proceeded from universal health care in the years of 1948–1991 to public health care which was based on the act on health care public services of 1991.

  • Issue Year: 33/2018
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 137-154
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish