НEALTH IN THE CIVIC STUDENTS’ VALUE SYSTEM: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Nowadays one of the priority directions of state education policy in Ukraine is the formation of a healthy lifestyle through education, creation health-preserving educational environment in high educational institutions. The aim of our work was to give an analytical estimation of the formation of health value as an integral characteristic of a modern Ukrainian student in high educational institutions of Zhytomyr region, to develop a scientifically substantiated system of diagnosing the value of health in the system of civic values of a future specialist in contemporary socio-economic conditions. Two students’ surveys were carried out in Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, among young people of 15-22 years old. A number of methods were used: observation, comparison, analysis, synthesis, generalization, the study of products of students’ activity, tests, etc. The success of the process of the formation of students` health value depends on the factors such as educational environment, the culture of health, training of university teachers to cultivate health value in collaboration with society, and using modern forms, methods, and tools in the formation of health value. Thus, the policy recommendations for high education institutions are: the prevention of drug addiction, smoking, consumption of alcohol, chronic diseases, Internet addiction; the organization and conduction of mass physical culture and recreational activities; the creation an effective health service system in high educational institutions; the providing the system for monitoring both the future specialists’ health and health work results in high educational institution.