Czy ideologia healthismu jest cechą dystynktywną klasy średniej w Polsce?

Healthism is an ideology ascribed to the middle class in Western societies. It is defined as a preoccupation with health, which the individual can attain through lifestyle modifications. The aim of the study is an attempt to answer the question of whether healthism can be considered a distinctive attribute of those social categories claiming to be the Polish middle class: that is, salaried, highly qualified, white-collar workers with high positions in the occupational hierarchy, and entrepreneurs with small and medium-size businesses. If it can, this would be another proof of the emergence of a middle class in Poland. Analysis of a survey conducted on a nationwide sample in 2008 suggests that healthism is most common among the former category of persons. One is therefore inclined to consider those concepts according to which the emerging Polish middle class is the segment of the social structure composed of salaried, white- -collar employees with high qualifications and high occupational positions.