Piotr Podolec
Public Health and Governance, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 112 - 115
In 2005 the Health Promotion Committee of the Polish Cardiac Society (PTK) invited seven other Polish professional societies to collaborate in a development of unified recommendations on CVD prevention in Poland. To coordinate the collaboration Polish Forum for Prevention (PFP) was founded. The PFP recommendations are in concordance with the current European guidelines however national characteristics and local epidemiologic data are also considered. They are broadly distributed to the subscribers of all official journals of the PFP Member Societies, and additionally published in Polish Heart Journal. The same information are published in a patient – friendly format on the website and as a booklet. Additionally, PFP does efforts to influence the health policy and currently is especially involved now in encouraging politicians to ban smoking in public places.