Piotr Romaniuk- PhD
- Head at Medical University of Silesia
Piotr Romaniuk
- PhD
- Head at Medical University of Silesia
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Introduction
Associate professor at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Head of Department of Health Policy and Chair of Public Health Policy, Since December 2017 to September 2020 – Vice-Dean of the School of Health Sciences in Bytom. Since November 2020 - Chairman of the University's Board of Health Sciences. Author of nearly 120 full-text publications with total IF score 119.897.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
October 2012 - September 2016
University of Strategic Planning
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- public health, demography
October 2009 - September 2012
University of Economics and Humanities
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Politics, political system, social transition.
October 2003 - present
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Social and health insurance, social and health policy, health systems, health care management
Education
December 2017 - December 2017
Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, School of Health Sciences
Field of study
- health sciences
June 2009 - June 2009
October 1997 - June 2002
Publications
Publications (106)
This study evaluates the influence of quality certificates on sustainable food production in Poland, considering economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Analyzing 25 different certificates, the research explores their criteria, procedures, and costs across various food product categories, including meat, fish, and plant-based products. The...
Introduction
Scientific literacy has been the subject of studies for several decades, but there is much less interest in the social perception of science, traceability of key areas of scientific activity and social expectations regarding science. Proper recognition of such issues can significantly contribute to a better understanding of the causes...
Background
Health regions aim to increase equal opportunities in health care through the networking of regional actors. In the Erasmus+ founded project Com.HeNet, a European training for the management of health regions was developed. The contents were defined through interviews with European health experts (n = 33). The Com.HeNet training was deve...
Health policies aim to achieve specific health goals through system-level changes, unlike common health interventions that focus on promoting specific health behaviors on individual level. However, reliable data on the feasibility and implementation of policy actions across Europe are lacking. Moreover, no practice-oriented guidance exists for poli...
Pandemia COVID-19 miała duży wpływ na funkcjonowanie całego świata, a konsekwencje tego wydarzenia w dalszym ciągu są widoczne w różnych dziedzinach funkcjonowania państw. W ramach walki z zaistniałym kryzysem Polska wdrożyła regulacje prawne mające pomóc zwalczać negatywne skutki epidemii bądź je minimalizować. Celem pracy jest ocena regulacji dot...
Background
Autoimmune thyroid diseases are the most common diseases in humans. Their pathogenesis is complex, pushing patients to search different ways of alleviating their effects, one of which is diet change. The aim of this study was to assess the role of medical personnel in shaping eating habits in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease base...
Background
Food environments have been recognised as highly influential on population diets. Government policies have great potential to create healthy food environments to promote healthy diets. This study aimed to evaluate food environment policy implementation in European countries and identify priority actions for governments to create healthy...
Background
Policies are an important upstream component of health promotion to influence the general population. Various frameworks exist to help implement policies. However, there is currently no overarching synthesis that describes the differences between policy implementation frameworks. In this study, we examined frameworks for implementing pol...
Background
One of tools to tackle growing problem of overweight and obesity are the taxation mechanisms applied to sugar-sweetened beverages, which are expected to influence the common eating behaviors, but also they have impact on the market and public finances. The solution is therefore highly entangled in the complex of social and intersectoral...
Background: Poland is facing the growing problem of overweight and obesity in the population, which makes it necessary to conduct a thorough assessment of the existing food environment policies. The aims of the study were: (1) to depict the strength of healthy food environment policies in Poland and identify implementation policies and infrastructu...
Background
This meta-review investigated the context-related implementation determinants from seven domains (geographical, epidemiological, sociocultural, economic, ethics-related, political, and legal) that were systematically indicated as occurring during the implementation of obesity prevention policies targeting a healthy diet and a physically...
Background:
Food environments impact on diets, obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Government policies are essential to create healthy food environments. This study aimed to assess the strength of European Union (EU)-level policies, and identify and prioritize actions for the EU to create healthy food environments.
Methods:
The Healthy...
Background
Policy frameworks focusing on policy implementation may vary in terms of their scope, included constructs, relationships between the constructs, and context factors. Although multiple policy implementation frameworks exist, the overarching synthesis characterizing differences between the frameworks is missing. This study investigated fra...
This chapter provides evidence that population health in the Emerging European Economies (EEE) lagged behind the EU average before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. We then assess the direct health impacts of the pandemic in the EEE and how they differed from other European countries. We also offer early evidence on Covid-19 vaccination rates in...
Background
Although multiple systematic reviews indicate that various determinants (barriers and facilitators) occur in the implementation processes of policies promoting healthy diet, physical activity (PA), and sedentary behavior (SB) reduction, the overarching synthesis of such reviews is missing. Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implemen...
Background
Germany has a comprehensive and diverse network of health regions, Spain has partial health regions and in Poland this model is not yet present. The purpose of this study is to summarize and compare the experiences of Spain and Germany in terms of health network managers activity, along with a potential and conditioning for the existence...
Background: Autoimmune thyroid diseases are the most common diseases in humans. Their pathogenesis is complex. Patients are searching for ways of coping with them condition, including diet modifications. The aim of this study was to assess the role of medical personnel in shaping eating habits in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease based on ex...
Przedmiotem zrealizowanych badań było uzyskanie odpowiedzi na dwa pytania:
1. Jakie są uwarunkowania polityczne zdrowego żywienia (healthy food environmnent) w Polsce, wraz ze
wskazaniem najważniejszych luk w zakresie istniejących regulacji, polityk publicznych i infrastruktury?
2. Jakie są kluczowe i priorytetowe działania, które powinny zostać po...
Die Entwicklung von europäischen Curriculum-Modulen zur Ausbildung von regionalen Gesundheitsnetzwerkmanagern ist Ziel des Erasmus+-Projekts Competences in Health Network Management (Com.HeNet). Der Mehrwert von europäischen Curriculum-Modulen sowie die ermittelten Kompetenzen eines regionalen Gesundheitsnetzwerkmanagers werden abgewogen. Es stellt...
Background
The implementation of public policies requires special attention from public authorities to ensure their transparency, effectiveness and efficiency. For this reason, efforts to evaluate the abovementioned politics gained attention and importance. Similar processes, by their very nature, are also noticeable in the area of health policy, h...
Background
European Union (EU) Member states' food environments are shaped by both national and EU policies. To date however, studies assessing food environment policies developed and set by the EU are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the strength of EU policies to improve food environments as well as to assess the extent these policies...
Background
Existing studies indicate obesity and diseases associated with diet and sedentary lifestyle as leading health problem in Poland that cannot be solved without explicit public intervention. The purpose of this study is to evaluate actions to create a healthy food environment, undertaken by public authorities in Poland.
Methods
We used the...
Demographic transitions that occur in decreased dynamics of natality and rising number of elderly in population structures constitute a challenge for all national economies. Another global phenomena are large-scale migration processes driven by intensification of globalization process, development of technologies, and telecommunications. Although b...
Objectives:
Oral health can affect quality of life in all course of life, which is a key factor of general health. Dental caries, periodontitis and oral cancer are of the highest burden of oral diseases. Rising prevalence of soft drinks and alcoholic beverages consumption due to easy access and socio-demographic altering has increased the concerns...
The article deals with the financing of spa undertakings through the health insurance system. The analysis is based on the financial statements of 28 spa undertakings operating in the Slovak Republic, their contracts with the individual health insurance companies and secondary data sources (accommodation statistics of these undertakings, the number...
The aim of the article is to compare health system outcomes in the BRICS countries, assess the trends of their changes in 2000−2017, and verify whether they are in any way correlated with the economic context. The indicators considered were: nominal and per capita current health expenditure, government health expenditure, gross domestic product (GD...
Introduction: Phenylketonuria in Polish population occurs with frequency about 1: 7000 births (60 newborns per year). Untreated or improperly treated phenylketonuria is the cause of the most severe forms of intellectual disability. The only effective treatment is the use a strict elimination diet for a lifelong. The diet consists on restriction of...
Issue/problem
Noncommunicable diseases are the main contributor to the global mortality, being responsible, as estimated, for 71% of deaths each year. About 80 of dietary dependent diseases has been identified so far, and their prevalence tends to exceed 30% in some populations.
Description of the problem
The growing prevalence of these diseases,...
Dietary behaviours have an important impact on rising prevalence of noncommunicable diseases responsible for 71% of deaths globally/year. Dietary behaviours also have a growing impact on quality of life, disabilities, as well as economic stability of health systems. In order to overcome the growing impact, many countries are looking for instruments...
Background: Ukraine, one of the largest states formed on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is widely perceived as a country that has lost its opportunities. Being devastated by corruption, it shows incapable to modernize and enter the economic path of sustainable growth. Similarly in the health care system no deeper reform efforts have been
taken in...
The effectiveness of health systems is an area of constant interest for public health researchers and practitioners. The varied approach to effectiveness itself has resulted in numerous methodological proposals related to its measurement. The limitations of the currently used methods lead to a constant search for better tools for the assessment of...
In Poland, following the example of other EU countries, the first maps of health needs prepared by the Ministry of Health were presented in 2016. The maps constitute a foundation for rational decision-making in the management of health care resources, being potentially useful for all actors in health system. This refers in particular to the institu...
Purpose
To investigate whether the Polish Marshal Offices use instruments for social media marketing activities in the field of health promotion.
Methodology
14 Polish Marshal Offices participated. The Computer-Assisted Web Interview and Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview were used along with a proprietary questionnaire. Standard statistical me...
The presented work refers to multidimensionally captured issues of health reforms in post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In the first of its parts a synthetic review and discussion of the reform experiences over the period of transformation in given countries has been presented, while the subsequent parts define the directory of...
The main aim of the paper is to outline the perspective for future developments of the spa treatment in light of demographic transitions characterized by the increasing number of seniors, as well as changing expectations and health needs of younger population. We made a systematic review of literature referring to the experience of Poland, and simi...
The Internet has become a common and global medium. It contains vast information resources and a wide range of communication instruments. One of the communication channels are social media, which increasingly are also used in the business field. Social media combined with mobile technology introduced new challenges to marketing activity. This trend...
Social security system currently faces a number of difficulties arising of changes in the demographic structure of societies, like the decrease in fertility, lengthening of life expectancy, and unfavorable change in the proportion of the population receiving retirement benefits to the population in working age. In result, social security systems ar...
Primary health care is an important part of any health care system. In highly developed countries it secures the population's most elementary health needs, with particular emphasis on preventive care and early intervention. Polish PHC model is currently undergoing a thorough transformation, associated with the need to adapt to standards designated...
The issue of clusters as a form of organization of market entities has recently attracted an increasing attention of health care management theoreticians and practitioners. In our opinion the existing theoretical basis gives a foundation for considering clusters as a source of potential for increasing the effectiveness of health policy and health c...
Background
After the fall of communism, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe started the process of political, economic, and social transformation. In health system the reform directions were often similar, despite differences in transition dynamics and the degree of government determination to implement reforms. Nonetheless, for most post-c...
The aim of this article is to present the course of privatization of spa companies in Poland during the period 2001–2011. We discuss assumptions of the privatization process, as well as actual implementation, having identified the process as chaotic and inconsistent with prior legal provisions. We found that in its applied form the process resulted...
In this article, we analyse the opinions articulated by the stakeholders of the public health system in Poland with regard to the projected new Law on Public Health, which targets the creation of the foundations of structures responsible for coordinating and monitoring the activities of public authorities in the field of public health. On this basi...
Gwarancja prawa do zdrowia przeszła ewolucję zbieżną z historią nowożytnych ustrojów państwowych: od ujęcia indywidualistycznego aż po postrzeganie przez pryzmat podstawowych potrzeb socjalnych. Celem pracy jest przegląd konstytucji polskich w aspekcie unormowań determinujących kształt polityki zdrowotnej państwa. Zakreślono ewolucję treści odnoszą...
Streszczenie: Klastry jako rodzaj zinstytucjonalizowanej współpracy stanowią atrakcyj-ną formę podejmowania działań gospodarczych nie tylko ze względu na walor połączo-nych sił partnerów, ale również na wsparcie udzielane tego typu przedsięwzięciom przez Unię Europejską, kraje członkowskie i władze regionalne w ramach polityki rozwojo-wej. Zakłada...
Background
A huge role in reducing inequalities in health is played by local governments, whose task is to respond to the needs of citizens. The local government is expected to be the first to address the changing health needs of residents, emerging inequality and injustice in access to health services. An essential tool in these activities are h...
Introduction: The political preference of voters has been shown to be associated with their health status. We investigated the relationship between political preferences and mortality in Poland around the time of the last three general elections.
Methods: We used the electoral data from the general elections held in 2001, 2005 and 2007. Indicators...
Introduction: The political preference of voters has been shown to be associated with their health status. We investigated the relationship between political preferences and mortality in Poland around the time of the last three general elections.
Methods: We used the electoral data from the general elections held in 2001, 2005 and 2007. Indicators...
Migration and ethical recruitment of health care workers is receiving increased attention worldwide. Europe's aging population is creating new opportunities for medical doctors for finding employment in other countries, particularly those of a better standard of living.
We conducted a survey among 1214 medical students in five out of eleven univers...
Background
Following the EU expansion in 2004, the threat of mass migration of medical doctors in the new member states has become a widely debated issue. It is particularly relevant in the context of skills shortages in developed countries that seek to fill gaps in their systems with foreign labor. This makes doctors from the former Eastern bloc a...
Background
After the fall of communism, Poland implemented one of the widest reaching programmes of socio-economic reforms. However, in comparison health system reforms were less radical. At the end of the 1990s a change process had been started, but the political fight for power has heavily influenced the health reforms and led to two different re...
Background
In Poland, the new regulations establishing a decentralized system based on the regional sickness funds were implemented in 1999. However, the inconsequence of central government policy in Poland caused a significant reorganization of the model in 2001 towards the opposite direction.
Aim
The objectives of this article are to analyze the...
Background
Armenian healthcare reforms have been carried out since independence in 1991, but achieved their full scale starting in 1995–1996. Although the healthcare system has already been modified and changed for 10 years, there is a lack of research in this regard.
Objectives
This paper aims to present the organization of the healthcare system i...
BACKGROUND Since 1999, self-governments in Poland has become responsible for realization of health promotion and prevention programs. The alcoholism prevention is provided by the units of the basic level (parishes and municipalities). All the other health matters should be the target for programs conducted by the middle-level units (poviat - county...
The paper is an effort to find what determined the success of Polish health reform implemented in 1999 in the Silesian Voivodeship. The problem has been referred to "social capital" proposed by R. Putnam; the first part of the article contains a short description of this approach. Then data concerning health insurance performance in Poland are pres...
The paper refers to the problem of emergency medical service in Poland, which is the only European Union Member State not having activated the emergency phone number 112. This fact has caused the threat of European Union sanctions. In this context, we try to discuss the chances of finalizing reform of the dramatically inefficient Polish emergency s...
The recent, tragic disaster at the pigeon fancier's fair in Katowice, which claimed 65 victims and injured 200 others, has left Poland in a state of shock. At the same time everyone was amazed at the efficiency of the rescue efforts, which stood out in sharp contrast to the chaos characterizing the Polish health care system and its emergency servic...
The paper discusses the question of privatisation of the in-patient care sector in Poland. The references to the general reforming processes are made, as well as the legal context of ownership changes is presented. First part of the article describes the forms of privatisation applied in Poland, such as privatisation of the management, partial priv...
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