Polish Journal of Public Health

Contents

1. Patient safety in the operating theatre - 1

Aldona Michalak, Marta Kotomska

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2. The concentration-response functions for short-term exposure to ambient air pollution - 7

Mieczysław Szyszkowicz

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3. Does the use of step counting devices affect the level of physical activity and body mass index of the youth studying in Lublin during COVID-19 pandemic? - 11

Barbara Nieradko-Iwanicka, Justyna Piechnik, Aleksandra Jaremek, Aleksandra Juszcza

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4. The attitude of students of Lublin universities to vaccination in the COVID-19 period - 16

Aleksandra Jaremek, Justyna Piechnik, Aleksandra Juszczak, Barbara Nieradko-Iwanicka

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5. Controversies about selenium supplementation - 20

Kinga Ruszel, Piotr Pokorski, Barbara Nieradko-Iwanicka

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6. How do the officials sleep? The assessment of sleep of the public administration workers using objective and subjective methods - 27

Karolina Lau, Joanna Zembala-John, Jadwiga Jośko-Ochojska, Krzysztof Biernacki, Elżbieta Świętochowska

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7. Thyroid diseases and mental illness together with behavioural disorders versus mental illness together with behavioural disorders and thyroid diseases - 35

Jolanta Herda, Piotr Okoński, Agnieszka Parfin, Krystian Wdowiak, Marek Kos

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8. Dental care in opinion of senior patients from Lublin - 41

Paweł Kudła, Janusz Tarczydło, Kacper Kuśmirek

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9. The knowledge of young women about cervical cancer - 45

Piotr Okoński, Agnieszka Parfin, Patrycja Pałczyńska, Krystian Wdowiak, Aleksandra Witas, Witold Wojdan, Weronika Sakowska

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10. The knowledge of young women about breast cancer - 50

Aleksandra Witas, Patrycja Pałczyńska, Krystian Wdowiak, Witold Wojdan, Weronika Sakowska, Marek Kos, Marta Kuszneruk

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11. Protection of the rights of people who have signs of mental illness: experience of Ukraine - 56

Iryna Hora, Valeriy Kolesnyk, Oleg Batiuk

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12. Assessment of the risk of postpartum depression and the support expected and received by women within a year of giving birth - 62

Edyta Gałęziowska, Karolina Kicińska, Zdzisława Szadowska-Szlachetka, Renata Domżał-Drzewicka

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13. Air pollution and emergency department visits for urticaria - 67

Mieczysław Szyszkowicz, Nicholas de Angelis

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14. Women’s health in times of COVID-19 pandemic. Do sex and gender matter? - 71

Joanna Zembala-John

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15. PTSD symptoms and coping mechanism of nurses in Poland before the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study - 76

Justyna Kosydar-Bochenek, Piotr Jerzy Gurowiec, Krystyna Woźniak, Wioletta MędrzycKa-Dąbrowska, Dorota Ozga

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16. Human Milk Banks – biobanking for preterms and newborns - 82

Anna Bartko, Anna Zagaja, Jakub Pawlikowski