In this article are considered actual questions on preservation of youth health, which is the main problem of modern society.
 The main provision of the National Strategy on recreational motor activity for the period up to 2020-2025 “Motor activity - healthy lifestyle - healthy nation” from 09.02.2016 No. 42/2016 is described.
 The aim of the study is to analyze the role of physical education and sport in the process of healthy lifestyle formation in student youth. It has been established that there is a need to be more focused on the formation and promotion of a healthy lifestyle and the promotion of the health of student youth. And this can be achieved by restructuring the systems of education and upbringing of youth, by acquiring knowledge, by creating conditions that enable them to develop in harmony with the present.
 Special attention is paid to the research of leading scientists, who indicate that physical education has a special place in the complex and multifactorial formation of individuality of the future specialist. Thus, the task of physical education in higher education institution is to create a need for students to engage in physical education and sports.
 It is worth noting the important place of physical education means for health promotion, development of physical and mental forces, increase of physical and mental working capacity, continuation of working longevity and human life by means of physical education and sport.
 The confirmation of the existing problem concerning “Prospects of physical education and sport in the system of education in Ukraine” is the governing documents of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in execution of the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to the appeal of the Verkhovna Rada Committee of Ukraine on Youth and Sport from 04.01.2020. No. 04-21 / 05-2 (1252).
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