Population of the Gypsy people living currently in Slovakia reaches approximately 400 000 people which represents 7.5 % of the total Slovak population. The age structure of the Gypsy population is of a considerably progressive type with a high number of children and very low number of old people. This is due to the high natality and high mortality of Gypsies, whose health status is worse than the health status of the majority population. Gypsy people represent an important "old-new" risk group in case of tuberculosis and a more frequent occurrence of other transmitted diseases is observed in them while a higher incidence of genetically conditioned diseases has been confi rmed, as well. As for children, a higher frequency of infectious diseases, injuries, intoxications and burns can be found as a result of their environmental conditions. A high level of infant mortality of the Gypsy children is a very negative phenomenon. We can state that the lifestyle of the Gypsy population is unhealthy, characterized by bad dietary habits, drinking alcohol, frequent smoking already in a very young age, higher weight and lower physical activity. All fi ndings confi rm that the Gypsy population is threatened by cardiovascular diseases at younger age already. Due to a more diffi cult approach to the health care, part of the Gypsies consult the physician only when in a serious health state. Health status of the Gypsy seniors has been reported only at minimum due to their low representation in population. Typical feature of this ethnic is, that they take care of their seniors. To prove this, during the author´s twenty seven-year practice he met just three old Gypsy women in social institutions. It is very diffi cult to address problems related to the Gypsy population; this task requires engagement of all spheres of our society, in particular of the Gypsies themselves, including their organizations (Ref. 50). Text in PDF www.elis.sk. Babinská I, Madarasová GeckováA, Jarčuška P et al. Does the population living in Gypsy settlements differ in physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption from the majority population in Slovakia? Centr Eur J Public Health, Supplement 2014; 22: S22-S27. 49. Belák A. Health-system limitations of Gypsy health in Slovakia. A qualitative study. Bratislava: WHO Country Offi ce, 2013: 54. 50. Kumanová Z, Džambazovič R. Rómska rodina: na rozhraní medzi tradicionalitou a modernitou. 503-526. In: Vašečka M (Ed). Čačipen pal o Gypsy. Súhrnná správa o Rómoch na Slovensku. Bratislava: IVO, 2002.

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Abstract:The article deals with the issues of mobbing in health care facilities. Nurse is one of the professions excessively exposed to the mobbing behaviour. Compared to other sectors, the risk of occurrence of this negative phenomenon in health care sector is up to seven times higher. The empirical part of the paper includes an analysis and a comparison of the results of the research carried out as a descriptive study with the aim to determine the extent to which mobbing is experienced by nurses, its emotional and physiological effects on the respondents and the steps taken by the individual persons to escape from the mobbing. It focuses also on the possible links between the nurses' personal traits and their vulnerability to mobbing. In order to get the necessary data, a quantitative method -through a questionnaire survey -has been used. The creation of the questionnaire has drawn inspiration from the research carried out by Nursing Administration Department, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Istanbul University in 2005, the respondents being nurses working in health care facilities in Turkey [1]. In order to determine the personal characteristics, the M. Hřebíčková and T. Urbánek's NEO Five-Factor Inventory has been applied, based on the NEO Five-Factor Inventory developed by P. T.

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Purpose of this paper was to review group of Cambodian children with AIDS -late presenters, coming to our programme with low immunologic status (CD4˂5%, and ˂100 CD4 cells) and opportunistic infections as well as children who started HAART too late according to the guidelines valid in 2003 -2005 (˂200 CD4 cells per cubic millimetre). Another aim of this study was to compare children with AIDS who are on 2 nd line HAART for risk factors, failure and outcome in comparison to children on 1 st line ARV. There was relatively low proportion of children on 2 nd line treatment since beginning of ART (27 of 140, 19%). Mortality in late presenters is higher than in non-late presenters and also opportunistic infections were higher in the group of late presenters, including HZV and TB. Relatively high proportion of slow progressors was found among included children as well.

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