Abstract
The paper describes the design and the essential results of a specially developed educational program “Healthy Lifestyle University”. This program can be viewed as an effective tool of medical students’ lifestyle monitoring as well as social and vocational position development. The program has been designed and implemented in Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, and successfully tested in the XI open public All-Russian competition of educational institutions of higher education (subordinate to the Ministry of HealthCare of the Russian Federation). The program was the winner in the category “Higher Education Institution of Healthy Lifestyle”. The essential educational components of the program, dedicated to dissemination of medical knowledges and fostering healthy lifestyle in medical students are disclosed in the article. The results of the survey reflect modern medical students’ modus vivendi and the concept of “healthy lifestyle” perceptions, as well as students’ troubles, needs and suggestions for further improvement of healthy lifestyle conditions, facilities and opportunities. These provide essential guidelines for further development of healthy and student-friendly university environment in Russia. The propagated healthy lifestyle set of values and attitudes contributes to vocational adjustment and vocational position formation, as well as personal and vocational selfreflection preparedness development of medical students.
Highlights
These days the formation of a healthy lifestyle of young generation is one of priority tasks of the social development in the country, the state and the scientific health protection methodology
Social and economic importance of healthy lifestyle formation has been reflected in the Russian government regulations and legislative instruments: the National Doctrine of Education of the Russian Federation till 2025, Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” (No 273-FZ, December 29, 2012), Federal Law “On Physical Culture and sports in the Russian Federation ", December 6, 2011
Students’ beliefs about health and healthy lifestyle conditions as well personal attitudes were checked in the questionnaire
Summary
These days the formation of a healthy lifestyle of young generation is one of priority tasks of the social development in the country, the state and the scientific health protection methodology. The tasks of promoting a healthy lifestyle determines the relevance and need for scientific research, eliciting reliable guidelines for methodological and organizational approaches for that purpose. The state of health is affected by personal lifestyle [1] that can be described as a way of living that, in its terms, is influenced by a set of factors such as geographical, economical, cultural, and educational ones [2; 3; 4; 5]. The stress and strain can be challenging for both students’ health and academic adaptation. A vicious circle of deadaptation (academic and vocational maladjustment) may start working, causing “psychological problems” [8; 9; 10 etc.], in their own turn causing health troubles and so on
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