The Charter of the World Health Organization states that health is a state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, and social well–being, and not only the absence of diseases and physical defects.
Healthy lifestyle (HLS)— a human lifestyle aimed at preventing diseases and promoting health.
A healthy lifestyle appears as a specific form of expedient human activity – an activity aimed at preserving, strengthening and improving his health.
The relevance of a healthy lifestyle is caused by an increase and change in the nature of loads on the human body due to the complication of public life, an increase in the risks of man-made, environmental, psychological, political and military characters provoking negative shifts in health. In modern society, the tendency to lead a healthy lifestyle is increasing more and more. A healthy lifestyle appears as a specific form of expedient human activity – an activity aimed at preserving, strengthening and improving his health.
Taking into account the social purpose of youth as the main labor potential of Russian society, the preservation and strengthening of the health of student youth is of great medical, social and social importance. Insufficient health, neuropsychiatric overstrain, high academic workload, irrational lifestyle, economic and social insecurity of students lead to an increase in their morbidity, preventing them from acquiring professional knowledge.
In order to preserve and strengthen the health of students and staff of StSMU, to achieve better results in training specialists, a comprehensive program for the implementation of the basic principles of a healthy lifestyle is needed.
In accordance with the following regulatory documents regulating the work on disease prevention and promotion of a healthy lifestyle (Federal Law No. 323-FZ dated 11/21/2011 "On the Basics of Protecting the Health of Citizens in the Russian Federation", Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 273-FZ "On Education" dated December 29, 2012), a program for the formation of healthy lifestyle skills has been developed lifestyle of students and university staff.
Aims and objectives of the program
The aim:
preserving and strengthening the health of students and staff by forming a healthy lifestyle in the university staff by creating conditions for strengthening and maintaining health in the process of study and work, forming a physical and medical culture of spending free time, eliminating bad habits, teaching students and staff knowledge, skills and healthy lifestyle skills.
The main objectives of the program are:
- formation of understanding among students and staff that caring for their health is the key to their success throughout the rest of their lives;
- the introduction of a cycle of educational and educational programs aimed at acquiring knowledge, skills and abilities of students and staff to preserve and strengthen health, and the formation of a health culture;
- creation of study and work conditions for students and employees that meet sanitary and hygienic requirements, optimal distribution of educational and work load;
- providing a complex of therapeutic and preventive measures aimed at improving the health of students and staff;
- implementation of a system of measures related to the improvement of catering,
healthy leisure and recreation;
- formation of a negative attitude towards the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs;
- providing psychological assistance accessible to students and staff;
- preparation and implementation of wellness programs, conducting training seminars and trainings for students and staff.
The program is implemented in the following priority areas:
I. Organizational and methodological work.
II.Educational direction.
III. Massive work to improve the health of students and teachers.