The importance of health counseling centers in process of protection, development and support of public health in Slovakia

• Authors: Ivica Gulášová , Lenka Gornerová , Ján Breza ml. , Ján Breza

Abstracts

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Authors focus on the importance of counseling centers in health protection and in promotion and development of public health in the Slovak Republic. Health is not only one of the most important rights of every citizen, but it also an obligation to take care of it. Chronic diseases can be prevented by adopting the principles of good nutrition, sufficient physical activity and avoiding of smoking, alcohol and stress. Level of control of major risk factors, especially of hypertension, should be increased. Also the motivation for patients to eliminate their risk factors through the instruments of state policy adequate education and the availability of better quality health care should be improved. Health counseling centers are designed for healthy people who are interested in the quantification of selected health status indicators related to cardiovascular disease, based on which is assessed the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Keywords

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health protection; monitoring; health counseling; risk factors

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych i Edukacji Humanum
• Journal: Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 2(6)
• Pages: 119-126

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

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Ivica Gulášová

• St. Elizabeth University of Health & Social Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Lenka Gornerová

• College of Polytechnics, Jihlava, Czech Republic

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Ján Breza ml.

• Department of Urology and Radiology and Centre for kidney transplantations, Kramáre University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia, Medical Faculty of University of Komensky, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Ján Breza

• Department of Urology and Radiology and Centre for kidney transplantations, Kramáre University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia, Medical Faculty of University of Komensky, Bratislava, Slovakia

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2158696