STUDENT LIFESTYLE AS A FACTOR OF HEALTH SAVING

Abstract

Student population is a special group in social and professional terms, which is characterized by the complexity of socio-psychological influences, getting professional education as the main sphere of activity, territorial concentration, commonality of interests, age homogeneity. Student youth is a group of high risk of various diseases. Today, the level of student health raises serious concerns of experts due to the high prevalence of various health abnormalities. The physical and psychological state of students depends on a large number of factors. Among them are lifestyle, often associated with inadequate physical activity, a high expansion of bad habits (smoking, drinking, drug abuse and substance abuse), irrational nutrition, prolonged neuro-psychological stress caused by a significant amount of educational programs, chronic and prolonged lack of time, which is needed to absorb a huge amount of information, worries, in connection with examinations in session, heavy information load, prolonged work on the computer, and a lot of work in the classroom. These factors contribute to the decrease of the body's adaptation capabilities. Health-saving orientation of the educational environment in higher education is possible when creating conditions for the formation of skills to preserve and strengthen the health of students. At the most typical age for students (17-18 years old) researchers observe increased tension of adaptation mechanisms due to neurohumoral changes and specific psychological content, which conditions the critical stage of ontogenesis. Students' adaptation to the conditions of the university includes three periods of acute, transitional and steady course of the adaptation process. The successful adaptation of students is provided by their physiological and intellectual readiness, as well as the formation of emotional, motivational and volitional sphere.