The health behaviours of young poles at the turn of XX and XXI century

Wołoszynek Eliza, Oziemczuk Karolina. The health behaviours of young poles at the turn of XX and XXI century. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(8):1157-1164. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1438794 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6125 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 14.08.2018. Revised: 20.08.2018. Accepted: 31.08.2018. THE HEALTH BEHAVIOURS OF YOUNG POLES AT THE TURN OF XX AND XXI CENTURY Eliza Wołoszynek1, Karolina Oziemczuk2 1 – Wydział Lekarski i Nauk o Zdrowiu Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach 2 – Wydział Nauk Społecznych – Instytut Psychologii Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Jana Pawła II w Lublinie Address for correspondence: eliza.woloszynek@gmail.com ABSTRACT Background. The increase of health-related knowledge and its accessibility, with the development of technology and social pressure on health care result in health gaining importance as a value. In the face of changes, one’s consciousness of the link between health behaviours and medical fitness is bigger and bigger. The young people in Poland are up-bringing in the domination of socio-ecological health model which highlights the entity’s lifestyle and its impact on health. Regular physical activity, appropriate, balanced nutrition, friendly interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and avoidance of risky behavior are the most important factors of the healthy human lifestyle. They affect the physical, mental, social development, health, learning and working ability. Objectives. The aim of this study was to analyse health behaviours among of Poles with reference to age, in recent years. Summary. The work in detail discusses biomedical paradigm of the health. Lifestyle concept as an effective way to prevent the occurrence of diseases, their development and complications were also described. Unfortunately, Poles are not aware of all the consequences of these threats. In connection with above, one should take care of systematic health education in the scope of effects reducing the negative impact on health threats. Key words: health, health behavior, paradigm of the health, lifestyl