[Frame of mind among Polish population in research carried out by the Central Statistical Office: initial analysis]. / Samopoczucie ludnosci Polski w badaniu przeprowadzonym przez Glówny Urzad Statystyczny--analiza wstepna.

The authors are going to estimate the prevalence poor frame of mind and neurosis among Polish adult people, and try to appoint the relationships between psychiatric disorders and gender, age, civil status, education and maintenance. The questionnaire contains questions about quality of sleep, possibility to fix one's attention on acting, inner tension, self-confidence. Almost 1/4 of women and 18% of men have poor frame of mind. We find very strong and important relationships between neurosis and the poor frame of mind. There were no differences in mental state between people living in towns and villages. The unemployed and the cripples have worse psychological condition than working men. People who are divorced and widowed have statistically more often poor frame of mind and neurosis than the married. We also found a major correlation between poor frame of mind and neurosis and education. Low education is connected with poor psychological condition.

[Evaluation of prevalence of emotional low self esteem and neurosis in Poland in 1996]. / Ocena rozpowszechnienia zlego samopoczucia emocjonalnego i nerwicy w Polsce w roku 1996.

The paper presents psychiatric problems included in national, health interview survey, recommended by the WHO, carried out by the Central Statistical Office in Poland in 1996. Authors are going to estimate the prevalence of a bad frame of mind and neurosis among Polish adult people and try to appoint the relationships between psychiatric disorders and gender and place of residence. We estimated results in 49 provinces. There were significant differences between east and west Poland. People who live in eastern provinces have a worse psychological condition than western. Women have higher rate of these this psychiatric problems. We also found a major correlation between dissemination of a bad frame of mind and neurosis among men and women.

[The costs of treatment and rehabilitation of long-term psychiatric patients]. / Koszty leczenia i rehabilitacji przewlekle chorych psychicznie.

The cost of treatment of mentally ill patients is taking an ever more important place in the health care systems of many countries. This is caused by an increasing interest of the taxpayers who want to know where their money goes in relation to medical expenses. It is logical that taxpayers' expectations include improvement of the health care system. Medicine cannot be considered in the category of a profit making economy because some of the fields of medicine are not and cannot be profitable. At the borderline between economy and medicine, pharmaco-economy was born. This new science considers the cost of treatment of various sicknesses; furthermore it tests the comparative costs and the use of pharmaceutical products. In pharmaco-economy we distinguish three different types of costs: the continuous cost (consequent to medical treatment), the indirect cost (related to losses on support of patients and their family members), the unassessable cost (psychological losses). A correct economical analysis is multi-factual and refers to different sides of our lives. With this understanding we can only consider the general economical results, that is, the so called "economical treatment result". It is believed that this way of thinking can cause an intensive development in the rehabilitation of chronic mentally ill patients in Poland. This rehabilitation can be a classical example of modern economy: hypothetically high initial costs cause their substantial reduction in the progressive development of the programme until they reach their effective reduction at the end, i.e. the progressive improvement of the patients functioning within their natural environment.