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Socio-Environmental Perspective of Health Threats of Young Adult Generation

Author(s): ALINA DWORAK, Joanna Bulska
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Environmental interactions
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: generation; young adults; health; threats;

Summary/Abstract: The generation of the turn of the 20th/21st century is given to live in a new, changing reality. Modern, young generation entering adulthood is brought up in a post-transformation society, dominated by consumption, accelerated pace of life and threats occurring in all spheres of its functioning. In Poland, socio-cultural transformation has become for young adults not only a source of new challenges, opportunities, but also of threats. The consequences of the transformations are difficulties of (especially) the young generation in adapting to the ever-changing, unstable reality. The rapid changes in the surrounding reality have inspired research on the problems of growing up (including risky and harmful behaviours), and the difficulties of a generation growing up in an unstable reality.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: Sp. Issue
  • Page Range: 417-429
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish