Introduction

The author analyses the issues concerning socialization of health value taking into account the nature and phenomenon of health socialization, health culture and social reactions to disorders of the process of health socialization.

A family constitutes the basic educational environment in which the basic cultural values are transmitted. The author presents the conception of the family health, analyses the family as a settlement, discusses the analyses of family as a place of an intergeneration transmission within the scope of health.

Interpersonal communication constitutes a crucial element in gaining skills serving health. The author of the article attempts to analyse the need to gain these skills in the subsequent stages of the process of child development.

Recently, due to the low birth rate in Poland, motherhood has become a topical issue. The author of the text deals with the issues connected with psychological and social conditions of women's attitude to their fulfillment of the motherhood value.

The article presents the studies concerning the knowledge of women on healthy behaviours in the period of pregnancy and confinement. The author concentrates on medical care in the period of pregnancy, nourishment, substance, hygiene, physical activity, sexual life and breast feeding.

Negligence is one of the forms of violence towards children. The article analyses the issue of prenatal negligence. It is looked at on the basis of the literature of the subject and the studies conducted.

The author of the article presents the analyses of negative child experiences caused by the family environment, indicating their connections with child health problems. She also describes different types of consequences of adverse childhood experiences.

The article includes the analyses concerning the functional abdominal pains in the medical-social context. The author emphasizes the role of humanistic sciences in the actions promoting prevention in the functional health disorders.

The article presents the role of parents' personality in the development of an individual, taking into consideration the features of parents' and child's Machiavellian personality constituting health danger. An overview of the studies on child's Machiavellianism was made, and the perspectives of the subject-matter in question were outlined.

The article addresses the problem of anorexia. It describes the studies on the role of parental attitudes in the process of curing nourishment disorders of young women as well as the consequences for families in which a child suffers from mental food aversion.

More and more families are facing the problem of chronic child illnesses. The author of the article raises the issue of the functioning of families having chronically ill children, and point out the necessity of the health education in these families.

The author makes an attempt to pay attention to health education in family in the context of spending free time in the case of children and the role of relax in health, among other things.

The author analyses aggressive behaviours in the context of social behaviours. The consequences of aggressive behaviours, though, have a dimension of disorders within the scope of the social health.

The authors of the article present the results of the studies conducted among the participants of the Third Age University concerned with the conditioning of activity of elderly people. The analyses are conducted in the context of such aspects as the activity and the perception of daylight, the activity and social support, the activity and transgression, and the activity and hope.

The article makes an attempt to analyse European priorities of healthy life and physical activity in obesity prevention. The author of the article relies on numerous European documents, WHO documents including, paying a special attention to the necessity of fighting with overweight and obesity in contemporary societies.

The reviewed work by Andrzej Krawański addresses the adaptation of modern didactics to physical and health culture. The author promotes the use of modern teaching methods in shaping health awareness and behaviors. The main theme is interactive learning and teaching in health education. The book focuses on creating a person's attitude towards their own body, motivating them to take care of their health and physical fitness. This publication, a pedagogical discourse, aims to promote a healthy lifestyle. It is addressed to a wide audience, including students, teachers, doctors, physiotherapists, as well as parents and educators. The author analyzes the dilemmas of physical education, the role of the health educator, and teaching strategies, emphasizing the need for active participation of the educated person in the process of shaping health and changing attitudes towards the body.

The reviewed book by Czesław Lewicki, "Health Education: A Systemic Analysis of Issues," focuses on the analysis of health education systems for children and adolescents, i.e., in the family and school. The author discusses the theoretical problems of health education, determinants and threats to health, the structure of the health education system, the formation of health attitudes, and the effects of education. It emphasizes the role of the family in shaping health. It analyzes the competences and limitations of parents and teachers in health education. The book includes a curriculum, Cyril Bibby's scheme, proposals for health education programs, and diagnostic tools.