title: To govern the health or to make the bills of mortality--this is the question for public health in Poland.
abstract: In the article important moments in the development of public health at the global scale were presented, assuming that postwar evolution proceeded in two fundamental phases: the first--events which occurred to the proclamation of the Ottawa Charter and introduction of 'new public health' and the second--situations reported after Ottawa to the present time. The current challenges for public health in Poland were also discussed. It was proposed to differentiate two dimensions of public health capacity: internal (ad intra), which is with regard to the power centre, condition within the environment and external (ad extra), which refers to the relation with surroundings and population and enables to deliver sustain services and programmes. The possible strategies aiming at increasing ad intra capacity were also indicated.
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cianciara
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011044:Poland; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D014944:World Health Organization