At medical universities, public health specialists have been trained for years. Recently, the catalog of medical professions has been expanded to include a new position: preventionist. However, at the moment, as Beata Małecka-Libera, chairwoman of the Senate Health Committee, said, the system "does not see" the potential of these cadres. - There are two emphatic examples of this. The law on coordinated care in primary care explicitly stipulates that preventive health care is handled by a doctor and a nurse. As much as possible, this could be the task of prevention," she stressed. Health education, which will wrap up in schools in September, is another example. The Ministry of Education's plans, at least for now, do not include the use of health specialists; the axis is to be retrained teaching staff.
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