Public health — in the LEK question base
Organisation and financing of Polish healthcare, epidemiology, health promotion, health policy.
- Questions in base
- 153
- Share of base
- 5.0%
- Roughly on the paper
- ~7
The "on the paper" figure assumes the 140 questions drawn from the base are distributed in proportion to its composition. CEM does not publish per-field quotas, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a promise.
Required reading — public health
The list CEM publishes for this field. Questions are written from these titles, so where a lecture and a listed textbook disagree, the textbook decides.
They appear here in Polish, exactly as CEM lists them — these are the specific editions that count, and most have no English translation. That is not an oversight on our part; it is the central practical problem of sitting this exam in English.
- 01 Jerzy Leowski — Polityka zdrowotna a zdrowie publiczne, wyd. IV, CeDeWu, 2018
- 02 Andrzej Wojtczak — Zdrowie publiczne, CeDeWu, 2018
- 03 Jarosław Pinkas (red.) — Współczesne wyzwania zdrowia publicznego, PZWL, 2021
Source: the CEM reading list . As at August 2026 — check before your session in case CEM has revised it.
Sample questions from the base
Ten items from CEM's public listing for this field, in the official English wording used on the exam paper. The correct answer is highlighted. Detailed explanations live in our Polish application (source of preparation).
International cooperation in the field of health protection is provided by:
- A WHO and WTO.
- B WTO and UNICEF.
- C WHO and UNESCO.
- D WHO and UNICEF. ✓
- E WTO and UNESCO.
One of the most important population health indicators is:
- A HDI.
- B HALE. ✓
- C GDP.
- D GNP.
- E GNI.
The first Ministry of Health established as early as the 19th century was:
- A MOPS (Municipal Social Welfare Center).
- B MOZ (Ministry of Health).
- C NFZ (National Health Fund).
- D POZ (Primary Health Care).
- E MOZiOS (Ministry of Health Care and Social Welfare). ✓
One of the institutions supervised by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland is:
- A MOPS (Municipal Social Welfare Center).
- B AOTMiT (Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System). ✓
- C MOZ (Ministry of Health).
- D POZ (Primary Health Care).
- E NFZ (National Health Fund).
Guaranteed benefits in Poland are divided into:
- A 5 types.
- B 6 types.
- C 11 types.
- D 12 types.
- E 13 types. ✓
Choose the true statement:
- A Primary Health Care does not provide overnight and holiday care.
- B Primary Health Care does not have funds for prevention.
- C Primary Health Care provides free preventive vaccinations for children. ✓
- D Primary Health Care does not carry out health assessments of children.
- E Primary Health Care does not issue sick leave certificates.
One of the tasks of primary health care is not:
- A coordination of health care of the beneficiary in the health care system.
- B assessment of the needs and setting of health priorities of the population under care and implementation of preventive activities.
- C recognition, elimination or reduction of physical and mental health hazards and problems.
- D rescue, restoration, improvement and maintenance of health in conditions of sudden loss of consciousness or sudden decompensation of vital physiological parameters. ✓
- E educating the beneficiary on responsibility for their own health and shaping health-promoting awareness.
Choose the true statement:
- A Health promotion is synonymous with health prevention.
- B Health promotion is synonymous with health education.
- C Health promotion does not include health education.
- D Health promotion includes health education. ✓
- E Health promotion includes health prevention.
NFZ (The National Health Fund) does not cover the following person:
- A a student.
- B a child.
- C an unemployed person with the right to unemployment benefit.
- D a person working on a contract of employment.
- E a person working on a specific work contract. ✓
Choose the true statement:
- A Evidence-based medicine and value-based medicine are opposite to each other.
- B Evidence-based medicine and value-based medicine are not opposite to each other. ✓
- C Evidence-based medicine is detached from the needs of the patient and the health care system.
- D Value-based medicine is detached from the needs of the patient and the health care system.
- E Both evidence-based medicine and value-based medicine are detached from the needs of the patient and the health care system.
Full listing for this field contains 153 questions — these ten are a preview. Detailed rationales, spaced-repetition scheduling and citations are in the Polish app (English coverage is in progress).
How to get through this field
153 questions is a finite, countable set — at twenty a day you are through it in 8 days. The difficulty is not the volume. It is that the CEM listing gives you the questions and nothing else: no answer key, no explanation and no indication which of the books above the answer came from.
In our bank every question in this field carries an explanation and a citation to its source. Instead of memorising a letter you see why the other four options are wrong — and that is the part which transfers to the 60 unpublished questions you cannot prepare for in advance. The English edition is in progress; these pages come first.