Ewa Falkowska, Director of Advocacy at UNICEF POLAND, stressed that all UNICEF programs directed at children take into account the health of their mothers. She pointed out the correlation between a woman's health and the health of her offspring.
Barbara Socha, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Family and Social Policy, pointed out the new threats to children's mental health posed by social media. - The term digital maturity or addiction to excessive screen time has already appeared. Since 2013 when social media became available on smartphones, the number of youth mental problems, including suicide, has increased. That's why we want to introduce solutions to combine women's work with raising children, so they can better control how they spend their leisure time," she informed. She pointed out that Polish women, unlike other European women, rarely work part-time. Only 5% do so. Meanwhile, in Germany 50% of ladies choose this form of employment, and in the Netherlands 60%. - We will seek the consent and serious treatment of women who want to provide their children with preventive mental health care and have more time to raise them, she announced.
Seniors - Health and Care Challenges
Prof. Ewa Marcinowska-Suchowierska of the Presidential Health Council reminded that we live in an aging society. - Due to multi-disease and multi-medication, seniors are "fragmented" into different specialties, and there is a lack of an outlook that ties this together. We have only 530 geriatricians, and half of them are inactive in this specialty. Therefore, the Council is working on the introduction of special geriatric care that constitutes a system to support the activities of the primary care physician," she announced.
Attorney Piotr Mierzejewski of the Ombudsman's office said that in 2050 the population of eighty-year-olds will make up 10% of the population. - This is therefore the last moment to prepare the health care system for this challenge, he said. Piotr Mierzejewski also drew attention to staffing problems. In Poland, there are 1.35 geriatricians per 100,000 people, while in Sweden there are 7.7. He also recalled that during the formation of the hospital network, the Ombudsman called for the inclusion of geriatrics in the network, but this demand was not met.
Prof. Maria Barcikowska from the Department of Neurology at PIM MSWiA spoke about neurodegenerative diseases. She pointed out that Alzheimer's disease affects single women more often, since they live longer. Women are also most often the caregivers of patients with the condition. Dr. Agnieszka Jankowska-Zduńczyk, president of the College of Family Physicians in P...
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