The perception that more and more Polish people are adopting a healthy lifestyle is growing systematically and significantly. Over the last four years the proportion of respondents able to discern signs of people taking responsibility for their health has risen by 13 percentage points, while there has been a more than three-fold jump (from 19% to 64%) since 1993. At the same time the proportion of those who think healthy lifestyles are uncommon in Poland has been diminishing (a drop of 35 percentage points since 1993).

An increase in the perception that taking responsibility for health is important to Polish people is also associated with a rise in the number of people declaring that they look after their own health. Since 1993 the proportion of respondents making such declarations has increased by as much as 27 percentage points, while the number of those doing nothing towards a healthy lifestyle has visibly diminished (from 38% to 14%).