
The article concerns the care work and organizational involvement of women in the health of their family members. Its primary purpose is to provide a working definition of the concept of family health management and to outline the field of research for it, while also discussing some of the available data related to the management process. The authors also point out the basic gaps in ongoing research, and formulate the most urgent research demands for the area in question. The text also refers to the systemic and cultural determinants of the management process, referring on the one hand to the problems of the healthcare system in Poland, and on the other to broader trends in contemporary culture, which include (bio)citizenship and the individualization of responsibility for health. This picture of how health management is practised in Polish families is based on an analysis of available data (desk research). The challenges linked to transforming the social roles of men and women, and the contradictions that emerge in the implementation of these roles, are also pointed out.
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