FORMATION OF HEALTH COMPETENCE OF STUDENT YOUTH AS A PRIORITY OF STATE POLICY

Abstract

The article substantiates the relevance and features of the formation of health-preserving competence of student youth as a priority area of public policy.
 Despite the scientists' active interest in the problem of developing the individual's health competence, in theory, and practice, this issue remains insufficiently studied. In particular, there is no common understanding of the essence of health competence, the process of its development. In this regard, the concept of «health competence» requires clarification and specification and analysis of the pedagogical conditions of its formation in student youth.
 Today, it is vital to introduce a systematic approach to maintaining public health by involving not only health but also education, culture, social work, etc.
 Statistics show an exacerbation of negative phenomena in Ukraine: the spread of drug addiction among young people, alcohol use, smoking, sexually transmitted diseases, early pregnancy. The problem of health and a healthy lifestyle has been exacerbated in the context of the current global pandemic.
 In the context of the importance and role of youth in the social structure of society, the study of the essence of youth problems, including health issues, becomes relevant.
 The author found that one of the most pressing problems of today is the formation of health-preserving competence of student youth, which involves the formation of a healthy lifestyle in the younger generation.
 Given the diverse scientific approaches to the problem in the study of the formation of health competence of students, youth has been considered as an integrative personality trait that ensures the organization of a healthy lifestyle in the physical, social and mental (spiritual) spheres of student youth as a separate socio-demographic group. Differs in the set of age and psychophysiological features, the level of health of which depends not only on the quality of their own lives but also the quality of the future professional activity.