Problems of healthy lifestyle forming in children and young students

A review of literature concerning various aspects of children’s and young students’ health and behavioral risk factors affecting its forming is presented. The significant role of pre-school and school education factors in maintaining and improving of younger generations’ health is revealed. Negative aspects of the educational process are: overload with the additional classes adapted from primary school programs at kindergartens, academic overload, irrational schedule, use of innovative teaching methods and technologies that are not suitable for students’ age and physiological features; authoritarianism of modern school, sanitary and epidemiologic requirements noncompliance. Additional risk factors are present in older adolescents: high incidence of out-of-school labor activities (up to 50% of pupils), bad habits, the emergence of occupational exposures, low levels of knowledge in the sphere of self-safety behavior, as well as external causes. Apart from irrational day regimen, academic overload, intensity of exams, behavioral factors are also in the basis of students’ health decrease. The absence of system approach and continuity in solving of the children’s and young students’ healthy lifestyle problems is demonstrated.

health, children, adolescents, youth, risk factors, healthy lifestyle, education