Health promotion and prevention from modern-age diseases as assessed by nurses

Health promotion is a way to maintain a healthy condition and develop it further. The objective of health promotion is ensuring that society has the knowledge on improving their condition in terms of health as well as skills sufficient to put it to use. In order to investigate how the health promotion mechanisms work in Poland, a research in the group of nurses was taken up. Its purpose was: to assess the medical institution activity related to health promotion and prevention from patients’ illnesses, to assess the medical staff’s involvement in health promotion and the preven-tion form modern-age diseases in a medical facility, to settle on prior-ities related to health promotion, to propose changes to be made in the health defence system that could lead to increasing patients’ qual-ity of life.