Objectives: In the contemporary Western culture, working population health issues, stressed in various publications, have been perceived as a crucial part of public health. To deal with occupational health issues properly, occupational health services (OHS), aiming at the protection of the...

Takotsubo cardiomiopathy (TTC) (known also as "ampulla cardiomyopathy," "apical ballooning" or "broken heart syndrome") is connected with a temporary systolic left ventricular dysfunction without the culprit coronary lesion. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was first described in 1990 in Japan after octopus trapping pot with a round bottom and narrow neck similar in shape to left ventriculogram in TTC patients. The occurrence of TTC is usually precipitated by a stressful event with a clinical presentation mimicking myocardial infarction: chest pain, ST-T segment elevation or T-wave inversion, a rise in cardiac troponin, and contractility abnormalities in echocardiography. A left ventricular dysfunction is transient and improves within a few weeks. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy typically occurs in postmenopausal women and the postulated mechanism is catecholamine overstimulation. Moreover, the distribution of contractility impairments usually does not correspond with typical region supplied by a single coronary artery. Therefore, the assessment of regional pattern of systolic dysfunction with speckle-tracking echocardiography and automated function imaging (AFI) technique may be important in diagnosis of TTC and may improve our insight into its patophysiology. We described a 55-year-old female teacher with TTC diagnosed after acute psychological stress in workplace. The provoking factor related with occupational stress and pattern of contraction abnormalities documented with AFI technique including basal segments of left ventricle make this case atypical.

Background: In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were a number of factors affecting employees, employers, and consequently, both directly and indirectly, the occupational health service (OHS). The purpose of this publication is to analyze the activity of physicians and OHS...

Background. Health promotion of adolescents is a high priority in Poland. Epidemiological data still indicates the low effectiveness of the health care system in this area. The relationship between the state of oral health and the vocational education of adolescents seems to be justified. The objective is to evaluate changes in the oral health status, eating habits, and the relationship between oral health and lifestyle related to vocational education among students from a secondary technical school of gastronomy and electro-engineering and information technology. Methods. The study consisted of two stages (at the beginning and end of education) and two parts: a questionnaire and a dental examination. The study group initially included 55 male students from the secondary technical school of gastronomy and 54 in electro-engineering and information technology school. In the second stage of the study, it was 42 and 51, respectively. Results. After three years, in the engineering and information technology group, compared to gastronomy one, a statistically significant increase in caries prevalence and the number of students eating between meals was observed. Conclusions. Professional education on proper nutrition conducted in the gastronomic school could have a decisive impact on the better oral health status of students.

This review includes information about the number of private health insurance and medical subscriptions in Poland, as well as the level of increases in premium rates, and the scale of health promotion and prevention conducted by Polish employers. The aim of this article is to present the current...

The key activity in good practice of occupational medicine is to control, on a regular basis, the workers’ health and how it is affected by the work environment and – consequently – to provide the employers and employees with advice regarding the organization, ergonomics, physiology and...