Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny

• adiunkt at Jagiellonian University

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a great challenge for societies. The increasing rate of infections and mortality forced state authorities to conduct and justify immediate decisions concerning all aspects of social life. The decisions were taken in light of high uncertainties and non-knowledge. Societies across the world were faced with the difficu...

Przekonania i kompetencje zdrowotne rozwijane są podczas procesu socjalizacji przez całe życie. Aby móc dokonywać świadomych wyborów dotyczących zdrowia, a w konsekwencji osiągnąć dobrostan, priorytetowym działaniem jest edukacja zdrowotna. Badanie analizuje proces kształtowania kompetencji zdrowotnych i krytycznego myślenia o zdrowiu uczniów szkół...

According to the World Health Organization, the improvement of people’s health literacy is one of the fundamental public health challenges in the 21st century. The key issue in teaching health literacy is to develop critical thinking skills. As health literacy and critical thinking should be developed at school age, we reviewed teaching methods or...

This article presents the design of a seven-country study focusing on childhood vaccines, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-TRUST), developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study consists of (a) situation analysis of vaccine hesitancy (examination of individual, socio-demographic and macro-level factors of vaccine hesitancy and analysi...

This paper reports on a media analysis which revealed significant differences as well as some similarities in the media debates in different countries. The study focused on seven European countries and considered twodimensions of comparison: between the pre-Covid period and the beginning of the Covid pandemic period, andbetween countries. The rich...

The pandemic outbreak in 2020 has influenced all aspects of social life. We focus on the education system and its impact on social (in)equality using Poland’s case to analyse them, through the notion of Bordieuan social field and knowledge-power relations. We claim that lockdown put into motion important processes or even systemic changes of educat...

The health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily suspended many of the existing rules and principles of the social order. This crisis can be described as social anomie. In this article, we explore the coping strategies of persons with disabilities in this state using the example of the families of individuals on the autism spectrum....

In times of pandemic, health literacy (HL) is very important, as it helps to find, understand, and use essential health information and services. According to WHO, HL is pivotal in fighting infodemic effectively, and education is a vital tool for developing it. In the presented work, we analyze 247 educational materials dedicated to children, adole...

Wyzwania wynikające z globalnego kryzysu zdrowotnego i infodemii ujawniły znaczenie kapitału zdrowotnego. Wychodząc od wielowymiarowej definicji Anny Schneider-Kamp [2021], analizujemy istniejące i potencjalne zasoby dostępne Polakom i Polkom w czasie pandemii. W artykule przyglądamy się znaczeniu kompetencji zdrowotnych dla dbania o zdrowie i posz...

Vaccinations are treated as a tool that can eliminate disease or at least reduce morbidity and mortality. The programmes implemented by the World Health Organization aim to completely eradicate certain infectious diseases. At the same time, the number of people who choose not to vaccinate, or question the effectiveness and necessity of vaccination,...

Profilaktyka raka szyjki macicy jako zadanie samorządu-na przykładzie Tychów (raport z badań)* Wprowadzenie Choroby onkologiczne uważa się za głównego zabójcę XXI wieku. Po-stęp, jaki dokonuje się w medycynie, rozumiany jako rozwój procedur terapeutycznych, jest imponujący, nie zawsze jednak może prowadzić do wyleczenia. Istotnym elementem walki z...

In this report, we present two of the Energy-SHIFTS activities realised within Work Package 4 (synthesis and evaluation): the series of four Citizen Debates and four pairss of Masterclasses. Specifically, the aim of this report is to describe and reflect on the process of exchanging knowledge within different communities to make the project outcome...

This article analyses the protests of resident doctors in Poland, with a particular focus on their hunger protest in October 2017. We use a theoretical framework of three types of groups – epistemic communities, communities of practice and interest groups – to show their strategies used for gaining influence upon healthcare. We show the dynamics of...

Although public debates on cannabis are ongoing in many countries, there are currently no EU‐wide rules for either medical or recreational use of cannabis. Numerous studies have illustrated that creating such rules is a complex challenge. The battle over the legalisation of medical use of cannabis in Poland is a good example for analysing the mutua...

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the world its unequal impact quickly became apparent. Regrettably the pandemic has underscored what is already known from over a century of research on health inequalities: those who suffer social, economic and political disadvantage, such as the elderly, the socially deprived, and some ethnic minorities ar...

Policy-facing organisations involved in the energy transition can greatly benefit from more and better interaction with experts in social sciences and humanities (SSH). This report chronicles the efforts of the Energy-SHIFTS program to connect policy makers to SSH-researchers and to connecting policy dilemmas to larger shifts in thinking around ene...

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the world its unequal impact quickly became apparent. Regrettably the pandemic has underscored what is already known from over a century of research on health inequalities: those who suffer social, economic and political disadvantage, such as the elderly, the socially deprived, and some ethnic minorities ar...

This collection of reports forms part of the scoping work of the Energy Social Sciences and Humanities Innovation Forum Targeting the SET Plan (Energy-SHIFTS). The reports are based on four workshops held in Spring/Summer 2019, which brought together experts from the research and policy sectors to discuss four themes: 1. Social innovation in the en...

This article analyzes the outcomes of the key healthcare reforms undertaken in Poland and assesses how successful they have been. Contrary to the governmental perspective on success, understood in terms of economic efficiency, we define it in terms of patient satisfaction. As such, health policy is treated as a political system’s response to the pr...

The aim of the paper is to propose a rethinking of the concept of epistemic communities in terms of their application in the discursive analysis of the field of healthcare. In the first part of the article, authors describe healthcare in the light of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, and then the knowledge-power relations are presented in the discourses in...

The research results presented in this article originate from the research and educational project conducted from January to June 2017, titled Prevention of cervical carcinoma, or how it is done in Tychy. Analysis of knowledge sources and the views on HPV vaccines, which was funded with a grant by the Polish Cancer League Foundation. The research m...

This article focuses on young people in Poland and their ways of constructing identity. The research is based on fieldwork conducted in 2013-2014 among (605) Polish secondary school students. The respondents were asked to answer the “Twenty Statements Test” and, later on, to write down their own associations related to the notion of identity. The o...

More in A.Wagner(ed) Visible and Invisible : Nuclear Power, Shale gas and Wind Power in media discourses on energy, WUJ 2017( forthcoming)

Trans. Benjamin Koschalka Widoczne i niewidoczne. Atom, łupki, wiatr w dyskursach medialnych wokół energetyki [ " Visible and invisible. Nuclear, shale, and wind in media discourses on energy " ] is an edited volume dedicated to the mechanisms of creation and functioning of media discourses on selected energy-related problems. The monograph attempt...

The paper attempts to answer the question about the relation between the construction of national identity in contemporary world and children’s literature. Qualitative analysis of books for children was made. The main assumption is that stories we tell children create a specific cultural map of narration, thanks to which children create the feeling...

This paper reviews the media discussion of the energy crisis with a focus on presentation of energy policy in Poland. The results of the research presented in the paper illustrate how the media in developing countries legitimate energy policy and the activities of politicians and other decision makers in the energy sector. The topic of environmenta...

The Polish system of education undergoes constant changes. Reforms of the system, particularly those implemented by superior institutions, usually result in changes in the given models of social thinking. The subjects for analysis in the presented text are social representations of school and teachers in television serials, taking into consideratio...