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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: RATIONALE BASED ON THE DIVERSITY OF IMPLEMENTED INTERVENTIONS WITH SPA PATIENTS IN POLAND 2018-2023

Patryk Tomasz Wicher
1
,
Andrzej Śliwczyński
2
,
Waldemar Wierzba
2
,
Katarzyna Grekowicz
3
,
Michał Mółka
1
,
Anna Wicher
1
,
Adam Rzeźnicki
4
,
Joanna Baj-Korpak
5

  1. WSB University – National Louis University in Nowy Sącz, Poland
  2. National Medical Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland
  3. Economic Schools Complex, Nowy Sącz, Poland
  4. Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
  5. Faculty of Health Sciences, John Paul II University in Biała Podlaska, Poland
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Online publish date: 2024/11/18
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