THE ANALYSIS OF THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AMONG YOUTH AND MOTIVATING HIM IN THE CONTEXT OF FUTURE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

For today, along with the topical problem of adverse demographic forecast, and in connection with the prospect of the increase of retirement age, the issue of healthy lifestyle is becoming increasingly important. Thanks to the state policy, there is currently cross-sectoral interaction implemented for the purposes of the control and prevention of non-communicable diseases in order to create the necessary conditions for the population’s healthy lifestyle. But despite the active policy of the state, many Russians, including students, do not have sufficient motivation to lead a healthy lifestyle. One of the components of the population strategy for non-communicable diseases prevention is the development of motivation to healthy lifestyle among students during their years at educational institutions. The specifics of medical universities are that the students trained there are the people to implement the population strategy of the future, including by providing a role model of themselves. The subject of our study is the level of knowledge on the healthy lifestyle concept. In our research, which was based on students, military students and medical residents of Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, we analyzed the formation of the concept of healthy lifestyle among students and the motivation to such lifestyle. In order to study the level of knowledge on the formation of motivation for a healthy lifestyle, a sample sociological survey of students on a specially designed questionnaire was conducted. As a result of processing the data of the survey, we were able to find out that most of the respondents have a low level of self-preservation culture and considers their lifestyle is not healthy enough, and would like to change it. Taking into account this desire of our respondents, we assume that it is possible to activate motivation to a healthy lifestyle within some disciplines.