Elżbieta Korzeniowska
Public Health and Governance, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 85 - 96
https://doi.org/10.4467/20842627OZ.11.020.0557
This article presents a problem of diversification of the attitudes towards health education of Polish employees in relation to those who work in Spain, Latvia and Slovenia.
The empirical base are the study conducted in 2009 (questionnaire interview) in sample of the employees population (1691 people: 400 respondents per country), ages 25-54. Analysis were conducted by comparison of low (primary, lower secondary, basic vocational) and higher educated (secondary or post secondary, tertiary) employees. There is a lack of basic dichotomy between different educated employees in Poland according to the acquisition of knowledge about health, however at the same time it was diagnosed some detailed differences. There were also observed significant differences between employees from countries under the survey, especially in the group of the low educated employees. The attention was called on the need to take into account cultural differences in the international projects concerning health education