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Prevention strategies in obstetrics and gynecology – review of Polish government programs
 
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Academy of Applied Medical and Social Sciences, Elbląg, Poland
 
 
Submission date: 2025-08-20
 
 
Acceptance date: 2026-02-11
 
 
Online publication date: 2026-02-21
 
 
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Małgorzata Świątkowska-Freund   

Academy of Applied Medical and Social Sciences, Lotnicza 2, 82-300 Elbląg, Poland.
 
 
 
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Introduction:
There are many preventive strategies in medicine offered by public health providers all over the world. Some of them are dedicated to the women exclusively.

Aim:
The aim of the review was to organize knowledge about preventive strategies offered to Polish women and to present populations eligible to every program, procedures that are covered and the way of qualifying for the programs.

Material and methods:
Government online sites describing preventive strategies for women and the latest literature presenting basics of the programs were reviewed.

Results and discussion:
Author of the paper describes five programs covered by Polish Ministry of Health: Organized Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (OCCSP), free HPV vaccination program, breast cancer prevention program, prenatal screening program and free vaccinations for planning pregnancy and pregnant women program.

Conclusions:
Summarizing topic of preventive programs for Polish women, there are many of them, taking advantage of the ones we are eligible for, may save our life, decrease severity of some diseases or protect infants from infections. Low coverage is the biggest problem of the strategies and the reason of their weak influence on the morbidity and mortality rates. Propagation of the preventive programs and encouraging people to use them is essential to achieve success.
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