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The paper aims to identify the scope and propose a systematisation of the contemporary redefinition of regional development factors, influenced by global conditions. The research process comprised three stages: (1) a brief review of the theoretical foundations and changes in the understanding of regional development factors; (2) presentation of the findings relating to the directions and impact of contemporary socio-economic megatrends on changes of regional development factors, and (3) the main body of the analysis, which identifies and describes the nature of changes in the perception of regional development factors as a consequence of contemporary global conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important features of Eastern Poland is its peripheral character. This region is often associated with various negative socio-economic phenomena. Population processes, including the problem of depopulation, affect a large part of rural areas of the macroregion. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the demographic changes occurring in rural areas of Eastern Poland in 2002-2015 on selected areas of socio-economic life, as well as to attempt to determine the scale of the changes and their spatial consequences in the field of education, entrepreneurship, construction, housing, and public finances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to assess the degree of diversification of the activity of rapid-growth firms (gazelles) in the towns of Podkarpackie region, especially in those urban centres, which are indicated in the regional strategy papers as actual or potential growth poles. The author puts forward a hypothesis that the broad representation of rapidly growing small and medium-sized companies is a good indicator of the condition of the local economy, highly correlated with other desirable measures of socio-economic development. The conducted research on the saturation of towns in the region with rapid-growth firms and the dynamics of their development allow one to conclude that much smaller set of cities than designated in the regional strategic documents can be regarded as growth centres in the light of this measure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the characteristic of Prague as a metropolis. The capital of the Czech Republic is an international city and plays an important role in Central Europe. A lot of foreign companies decided to run their business in Prague because it offers many favorable conditions such as high level of well-educated and highly qualified workers, an innovative environment, a developed infrastructure (transport, telecommunication). Prague is more competitive and attractive to investors than other Czech regions and as a result constantly increases disparities between itself and them (for example salary is about 25% higher than the national average and unemployment is more than twice lower than the national average). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is the effort of having a look at the system transformation and inequalities in health cused by it from the perspective of Eliot Freidson's theory. The author wants to show the makrosocial process and their costs from the ordinary people's point of view. The empirical material will be the fragments of letters sent to TVP program II by the viewers systematically watching the programs of non conventional therapist A.M. Kaszpirowski. This kind of personal documents among others gives the possibility of subjective experiencing the financial difficulties in the first phase of transformation, registration of impressions connected with the trauma of the "big change", finally allowes to follow the examples of new thinking about the social and economic problems: increase of civil activity, autocreative and innovative attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The DETERMINE project (2007-2010) was coordinated by EuroHealth- Net and there were 24 countries involved. It was an EU consortium for action on the socio-economic determinants of health (SDH). The overall objective was to mobilize action for health equity in the European Union, especially through achieving greater awareness and capacity amongst decision makers in all policy sectors to take health and health equity into consideration when developing policy and to strengthen collaboration between health and other sectors. Several phases of activities were carried out e.g.: identification of actions and policies addressing the socio-economic determinants of health inequalities (SDHI) in UE member states, recognition of innovative approaches in the context of SDH and selection of three small pilot projects with promising approach, consultations with politicians and policy makers outside the health sector on their attitude towards SDHI and their role in achieving health equity, identification of economic analyses addressing SDHI. There were also capacity building and awareness raising activities carried out by DETERMINE partners, such us: skills development, partnership development, leadership, awareness raising and advocacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author discusses the problem relating to the relocation of enterprises as a process resulting from the ongoing globalization of economic activity. For this purpose, the author discusses the essence of relocation and its causes, with particular emphasis on tax competition between countries. According to the author, apart from specific adverse effects, relocation usually leads to an increase in the competitiveness of enterprises, their development, and thus to the development of the economies of individual countries. Therefore, the role of governments, especially of developing countries, is such an action, including the use of fiscal instruments, which, through healthy competition would allow the achievement of competitive advantage in the international market, so that would be used an opportunity for socio-economic development of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building a positive town image using natural conditions of environment is a complex process. In this process it is necessary to identify and determine hierarchy of importance of natural conditions, which in the long period of time will determine town image. The town image may consist of advantage collection of natural environment, not only one element of environment. Building positive town image using natural conditions of environment helps to increase a level of socio-economic development as well as to achieve advantage in cooperation for a town. The activity of creating positive town image based on natural environment conditions has a goal to create such an image of a town which helps to recruit new inhabitants and investors and also helps to be more attractive for tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovation in the current economy could be characterized by: short product life cycle and its high quality, global market, increased awareness and consumer requirements becoming significant factors of socio-economic development. Economics devotes more attention to the development of research related to innovation and its impact on economic growth. Innovation frequently is the result of technical progress and, as such, is a determinant of the socio-economic growth. The relationship between socio-economic development of regions and the level of innovation is a feedback loop. Socioeconomic development has an impact on productivity growth and better economic results, and consequently on the growth of GDP, which determines the degree of innovation as well as increases its attractiveness to investors. This article aims to analyze diversity of socio-economic development in Świętokrzyskie voivodeship and this is also an attempt to determine the relationship between the level of socio-economic development and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper ten new consumer trends for 2011 diagnosed by analysts of the American marketing think tank JWT are presented. The author puts them in a broader context of social and economic changes accompanied by a spectacular development of information and communication technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article brings closer personal characteristics of providers important in contacts with tourists, communication and organizational skills useful in offering agritourism services, reasons of agritourism activity, sources of finance of agritourism activity, structure of income in researched households and their financial situation after beginning of agritourism activity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wstęp: Przewlekła choroba żylna jest cały czas poważnym problemem zdrowotnym, społeczno-ekono-micznym i terapeutycznym. W leczeniu zachowawczym stosuje się leki z różnych grup, w tym flawono-idy. Jednym z najczęściej używanych leków z tej grupy jest diosmina. Materiał i metody: Autorzy przeanalizowali grupę 301 pacjentów (240 kobiet i 61 mężczyzn) w wieku około 21-70 lat (śr. ok. 48 lat) zgłaszających się z objawami przewlekłej choroby żylnej po raz pierwszy do poradni naczyniowej. Chorzy dotychczas nie byli leczeni lekami wenoaktywnymi lub przerwali leczenie farmakologiczne minimum rok przed wizytą. Oceniano stopień zaawansowania według skali CEAP, występujące objawy i jakość życia tych chorych przed, w trakcie i po leczeniu zmikronizowaną diosmina (Diosminex® -- zmikronizowaną diosmina firmy LEK-AM, tabl. 500 mg). Podawano Diosminex® 2 razy dziennie (przy stosowaniu dwóch dawek dziennie utrzymuje się stała dawka terapeutyczna leku). Terapia trwała 8 tygodni. Do badania skali jakości życia zastosowano formularz CIVIQ, najczęściej stosowany w ocenie chorych z przewlekłymi zaburzeniami żylnymi. Chorzy wypełniali formularz jakości życia przed leczeniem oraz po 4 i 8 tygodniach terapii. Wyniki: Przeanalizowano statystycznie uzyskane wyniki, stwierdzając poprawę kliniczną i jakości życia we wszystkich sferach (socjalnej, psychologicznej, fizycznej oraz bólu). Największą poprawę uzyskano w sferze ustępowania bólu (o 31,03 %), dobre rezultaty w sferze fizycznej i socjalnej (odpowiednio o 14,74 i 23,88%). Najmniejszą poprawę uzyskano w sferze psychologicznej -- o 16,58%, ale początkowa ocena była dość wysoka. Ogólnie po 4-tygodniowej terapii Diosminexem® jakość życia pacjentów z przewlekłą niewydolnością żylną poprawiła się o 14,4%, a po 8 tygodniach o 23,1%. Kliniczną poprawę stanu kończyn dolnych obserwowano u 84,4% badanych. Wnioski: Subiektywna ocena pacjentów wskazuje, że w trakcie leczenia Diosminexem® są oni zadowoleni ze swojego samopoczucia oraz poprawy w zakresie stanu kończyn dolnych. Wyniki badania wskazują na celowość wydłużenia czasu terapii, co może wpływać korzystnie na efekty leczenia zarówno w ocenie pacjenta, jak i ocenie lekarza. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]