How can effective health education and preventive measures reduce the development of lifestyle diseases?

- We should definitely speed up with prevention," admitted Marek Augustyn, vice president of the National Health Fund. Admittedly, the declaration was made in the specific context of obesity-related disease, but it applies to the entire spectrum of problems we are facing at the moment in the area of public health.

Obesity, however, as Prof. Lucyna Ostrowska, president of the Polish Society for the Treatment of Obesity, stressed, cannot be discussed in the context of prevention - although this is undoubtedly a very important, even fundamental, aspect. - There is no treatment path for the obese patient in Poland, and this is already a problem for 9 million people, she reminded, citing a NIK report published six months ago, which showed that only half of the audited PCPs performed even one, incomplete, basic patient measurement (patient weight control) during the year. - We have a declaration from the Polish Society of Family Medicine that the situation will improve," she stressed, while stipulating that PCPs are not sufficiently "armed" to take...