HEALTH STATE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND ITS DETERMINANTS

Abstract

The preservation and promotion of health in youth is one of the most urgent and important health and social problems at the present stage. In the Russian Federation, sanitary supervision of institutions of higher professional education is carried out both for public facilities and for universities, where there are no specially developed sanitary rules and regulations. From the positions of modern preventive medicine, it is impossible to carry out reasonable health-improving measures in educational institutions of a medical profile without hygienic assessment of microclimate conditions, chemical composition of indoor air, levels of illumination, noise and electromagnetic fields. The article is devoted to the assessment of the health state of medical students in the conditions of various social and hygienic, ecological and biological factors. The hygienic characteristic of the levels of illumination and microclimate of the classrooms is given. The protection of students' health from the negative impact of electromagnetic fields from computers is also an important medical, technical and social task. Significant emphasis in the article is given to a problem of spreading bad habits, including smoking and drinking alcohol. Hygienic features of education in medical schools and prevention issues were also presented. There is a need to promote knowledge of hygiene and healthy lifestyle among students in the form of lectures, conversations and visual propaganda. Students in the form of lectures and conversations, visual propaganda.