Promocja zdrowia w działalności Państwowej Inspekcji Sanitarnej

The aim of this article is to present the activities of the State Sanitary Inspection in the scope of health promotion. The organization, tasks and the field of the activities of the State Sanitary Inspection bodies are set out in the Act on State Sanitary Inspection of 14th March 1985. The State Sanitary Inspection is on assignment to carries out public health policy. The organizational units of this institution pursue the public health tasks taking preventive and current sanitary supervision, conducting preventive and anti-epidemiological activity with respect to infections diseases as well as conducting the educational and healthy activity. The issues concerning the health promotion play a crucial role in the educational and healthy activity of this Inspection. The health promotion might be also undertaken by the State Sanitary Inspection in the field of e.g. current or preventive sanitary supervision. However, in this sphere the health promotion has only an additional and supporting character. Within the educational and healthy activity, the State Sanitary Inspection promotes health by using non-imperious legal forms of public administration activity80. The division of non-imperious legal forms into: bilateral and unilateral one’s which was presented in a doctrine by T. Kuta has application in the activity of the State Sanitary Inspection relating to issues of the health promotion. The bilateral non-imperious forms are connected with collaboration among the State Sanitary Inspection and public and non-public entities. This collaboration is usually carried out as a nationwide or local long-term programmes or actions. However, the unilateral non-imperious forms of the State Sanitary Inspection are completed in the form of appeals and manifestos aimed at the single-reaction (e.g. social or media campaigns).