The patient as an aggressor

Autor: Piąta, Aleksandra, Kocańda, Kamila, Adamczyk-Gruszka, Olga
Zdroj: Zdrowie Publiczne = Polish Journal of Public Health; January 2023, Vol. 132 Issue: 1 p64-66, 3p
Abstrakt: Despite the development of medicine, acts of violence against health care professionals, are a current, frequent and widespread phenomenon. In Poland, many health care staff are entitled by law to legal protection provided for public officials. Therefore, criminal offenses against them are more severely punished. In the years 2018-2019, research was carried out on acts of aggression that had been experienced by a group of 249 health care staff in health care facilities in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Just slightly more than 7.5% of the respondents indicated that they had not experienced aggression, which only confirms the scale of the problem. Therefore, managers of health care facilities should use all possible means to limit the extent of attacks and prevent their possible consequences..
Databáze: Supplemental Index