ASSESSMENT OF PRIORITIES IN RELATION TO THE FACTORS OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE OF STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT COURSES

Abstract

In recent decades, lifestyle as one of the most important health factors has attracted considerable interest from researchers. Student youth are the segment of society that has the greatest potential to become health literate and benefit from evidence-based research and information-based health policies and initiatives. The purpose of our study was to determine the components of a healthy lifestyle and health factors that are of priority importance for students in terms of the effectiveness of the impact on health; elucidation of the spectrum of health care products used by students in their own health care practice, delineation of factors that prevent them from taking care of their health, as well as analysis of the dynamics of changes during the study of students at a higher educational institution. The results of the experiment became the basis for the search and implementation of new pedagogical forms, means, interactive teaching methods that actualize knowledge about health in the minds of students, increase their significance, create opportunities for successful mastery of this knowledge and effective practical application. Gaining health-building experience is important not only from the point of view of mastering relevant practical skills and abilities, which then become habits and components of a healthy lifestyle, but also from the aspect of forming the motivation of student youth to use the acquired knowledge. Behavior is always related to motivation, which is created precisely in the process of training, education and personality development. Wide use of interactive teaching methods, which are based on closer subject-subject relationships between teachers and students, empowerment of those who teach and those who learn, contribute to a more responsible attitude of students to self-training, self-education as a learning process, as well as in household or professional activities.