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Мотивирование населения к здоровому образу жизни
Motivation of population for healthy life style

Author(s): Nina Alekseevna Barbarash, Dmitry Yur'evich Kuvshinov
Subject(s): Educational Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction
Published by: Новосибирский государственный педагогический университет
Keywords: Population health; student's and physician's health; motivation for healthy life style

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of modern data and results of educational and scientific work carried out within The Normal Physiology Chair at Kemerovo State Medical Academy on working out methods of motivating population to healthy lifestyle.The purpose of this article is to emphasise the main problems of health science and pre-sent the ways of their solving. The authors relied on the opinions of the world's most famous people, provided the examples of health lifestyle demonstrated by medical scientists and the au-thors of this article. The article is accompanied by the booklets on healthy lifestyle as well as tests for health self-assessment. During some motivating lectures and talks the authors use verses of A. Pushkin, O. Mandelstam, I. Guberman, V. Dagurov and humorous approach to some health problems. In conclusion the authors emphasise the role of behavioral factors in forming health of individuals and of the whole population.