Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes – Fight Against the Disease and Health Education

Diabetes is considered a civilisation disease whose treatment, since the diagnosis, continues throughout lifetime. This is a huge burden to the health insurance system. From the data of the National Health Fund (Polish: Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia, NFZ) it transpires that the number of those suffering from type 2 diabetes exceeds 1.6 million. In fact, this number is higher since some persons having diabetes have never been diagnosed. That is why it is very important, for both the health system, and the patients themselves and their relatives, to have access to education, appropriate prevention and, once diagnosed, to start treatment as soon as possible so that not to develop complications or to delay them. Therefore, the Supreme Audit Office conducted an audit to evaluate the activities aimed at diagnosing those threatened with and suffering from type 2 diabetes at an early stage, and at implementing effective methods for treating the disease

National Programme for Psychiatric Health Protection – Reasons for Missing the Objectives and Tasks

The organisation of psychiatric care in our country, apart from the low level of its financing, is the main barrier that hampers the access to services to patients with psychiatric disorders. In the past, the model of isolation predominated in treatment. Contemporary science proposes an environmental model of psychiatry which is an optimal solution for the patients and their families. The reconstruction of the system was to be provided through effective realisation of the Psychiatric Health Protection System in the years 2011-2015. In her article, the author discusses the details of the Programme, and she presents the reasons for missing its objectives and tasks that were spotted during the NIK audit

Genetic Blistering Diseases

Inherited epidermolysis bullosa (EB) encompasses a group of rare genetic disorders of the epidermal and dermal-epidermal junction complex, characterized by fra- gility of the skin and the mucous membranes, causing blistering and erosions after minor injury. The different types of EB present extreme phenotype variability; while some are mild, chronic and compatible with life, others are severe and associated with complications, morbidity, and increased mortality. Skin and mucous membranes are primarily affected by EB, but extracutaneous organs may be involved. The main types of EB include EB simplex (EBS), junctional EB (JEB), dystrophic EB (DEB), and Kindler syndrome (KS)