Publications abroad

Introduction. The terminal period is a time when the options for further prolonging the life of a chronically ill person by direct action on the cause of the illness have been exhausted, and the patient needs to be cared for. The family then encounters a range of problems, including...

Introduction: The ageing population is characterised by an increase in the prevalence of a number of diseases typical of geriatric age, which impede the functioning of the elderly and impair their quality of life. These include diseases of the skeletal and...

Among the indicators describing the health status of the population and its representative groups, we usually use a dichotomous division based on the assessment of selected parameters of human biological functioning and on epidemiological measures that take into account the direction,...

Endometriosis is a disease involving the implantation of endometrial structures outside the uterine cavity. In Poland, about 1 million women suffer from it. The problem is serious, but still underestimated. Endometriosis is characterised by three main symptoms: pelvic pain,...

The experience of illness, particularly somatic chronic illness, can often be associated with a great sense of discomfort and, consequently, with the patient's belief that their quality of life has been significantly reduced. The sense of quality of life is a subjective category,...

The social consequences of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that affects just over 1,500 people in Poland, of whom only about 100 reach the age of 30 or more, are rarely studied from the perspective of the sociology of medicine. The nature of the disease requires great efforts ...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. The diagnosis of this disease marks the beginning of a long road and a difficult fight against the disease for a woman. A mastectomy, or amputation of the breast, is an irreversible systemic process. For the patient, it is a traumatic experience....

Introduction: Psoriasis is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory, non-infectious skin disease characterised by increased keratinocyte proliferation, leading to a significant decrease in somatic functioning and quality of life in patients. Objective: To determine the ...

This article deals with the analysis of quality of life taking into account health status. The authors define the term quality of life. They characterise quality of life using subjective as well as objective instruments. They devote considerable attention to generic questionnaires (generic...

A comprehensive view of the disease phenomenon is closely linked to the determination of patients' quality of life. This is particularly important in chronic respiratory diseases such as bronchial asthma. Recently, physical problems have increasingly been presented,...

Introduction. Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women and often requires breast amputation. Mastectomy is a great experience for women and often leads to a reduced quality of life. It is sought that the medical interventions undertaken not only...

Performing an accurate pain assessment in cancer patients is a prerequisite for determining appropriate analgesic management. Pain assessment should include a proper estimation of pain intensity, as well as recognition of the type of pain from the point of view of pathomechanism: pain...

Chronic dermatological diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, vitiligo, acne vulgaris or rosacea adversely affect patients' quality of life. Patients very often experience stress and a sense of stigma, and more often than not ...

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of death from malignant tumours in women. Breast cancer in its early stages does not cause symptoms, but in advanced disease it causes numerous physical symptoms, but also disrupts...

BACKGROUND: Radiotherapy is one of the most commonly used and effective cancer treatments. At the same time, it is one of the factors that cause psychological stress in people with cancer, as it involves ...