[Public health institutions in the second republic of Poland--the organization, its aims and tasks]

The author discusses the organizations, the aims and the tasks of the selected public health care institutions in the Second Republic of Poland which realized particular health policy of the state. The policy included all matters concerning the public health care solved by the state through the assignment of the aims and tasks as well as the organization of the infrastructure for its realization. In order to determine the tasks of public health care one should ask how the medicine, as a branch of science, influenced off the health policy, what way it was connected with policy and economy as well as how it determined the creation of such a policy? The answers to these questions were provided by the health policy of the state expressed, among others, by health care addressed to an individual, a social group and the whole society. The range of health care corresponds to the assumed objectives aimed at by the state through plans and actions ensuring (at least theoretically) the best solutions. Generally its attempt to provide care and to maintain the health of an individual and the whole society. The tasks of public health care can be grouped in three domains: therapy, prophylaxis and rehabilitation.