The infant mortality rate in Poland has decreased significantly since 2008. In 2019, the figure was 3.8 deaths per 1,000 births. The life expectancy in 2020 was 72.6 years for women and 80.7 years for men. There has been an increase to this figure since 1950 when it was approximately 62 years for women and 56 years for men. One in four adults is living with a chronic disease such as hypertension. However, the most prevalent cause of death in 2019 was circulatory diseases, responsible for 421 deaths per 100,000 people.
Although more than half of Poles visited their general practitioner in the last six months, there is little faith among the Polish population towards their health services. Only 38 percent of people surveyed would rate the quality of healthcare they have access to as good, while every third Pole claimed that the quality of treatment was worse than in 2014.
Nearly every second respondent in Poland has encountered telemedicine and indicated that they would use it in the future. During the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, over 43 percent of Poles used telemedicine, such as telephone or online consultations.
