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The article presents the results of a regional study devoted to the study of strategies and practices of self-preserving behavior of young people. The results of the sociological research showed that most young people consider health to be one of the important values and try to lead a healthy lifestyle, namely: to look at life with optimism, exercise, watch their weight, eat right, pay attention to the shelf life and composition purchased products, do not smoke, limit alcohol consumption, etc. The main factors tha...

The history of food comfort has its roots somewhere in the 1960s in the US, when they first tried to define them taking into account the psychological aspect, "they produce comfort or consolation, protection and nutrition." For the consumer, it is essential that the consumed food provide the amount of nutrients necessary to maintain daily balance, satiety, to be healthy and to provide satisfaction during and after consumption. From the perspective of the hospitality industry, the food comfort product contributes t...

Background: Health literacy, which is a part of the fundamental equipment for life and the path to the health of the individual and of the society, has been coming to the foreground of many scientific disciplines in recent years. The crucial issue of the presented area consists in the fact that low health literacy is a serious risk factor for health, which deepens undesirable health inequalities and results in high costs for health care. The goal of this article consists in presenting partial results of a study ma...

Context. Nowadays an increasing number of students are heading to professional sports; at the same time, many students are not engaged in leisure physical activities, which is a serious alarm signal for the health of young populations and for sports. The aim of this study is to determine the bio-motric potential of secondary school students, rural and urban residents, on the assumption that Body Mass Index (BMI) is an indicator of health and it can also indicate the possibility that subjects with healthy weight ac...

Life quality is a category by which characterize the material circumstances of population's life, determining the degree of every human person's dignity and freedom, comfort both within themselves and within the community. Life quality is very broad and ambiguous term to interpret. It is still not developed a unified approach to this concept content. Life quality is considered as a general sociological and socio-economic and as a purely economic concept. In modern scientific literature is widely used the term "Lif...

Since 2007 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index provides the opportunity to compare countries within the travel and tourism competitiveness. This index evaluates a number of areas related to travel and tourism, which may affect its competitiveness. One of the essential factors for travel and tourism competitiveness is health and hygiene. Within health and hygiene pillar, sub-pillars such as Physician density, Access to improved sanitation, Access to improved drinking water, Hospital beds, HIV prevalence, and M...

One of priority activities in EU is health promotion among all the age groups, resulting from health policy implemented by World Health Organization and European agencies. This is especially important among senior citizens since the precondition for successful ageing is to maintain a good psychophysical fitness through participation in various forms of sport and recreation. With reference to the theory of activity, all humans, even older adults, need physical exercise and being active. Activity and sense of associ...

Research and studies of literature focused on prevention of cardiovascular diseases and didactic approach in education have led our project team to develop a program for group preventive activities. The program is aimed at familiarizing the clients with influence able factors causing cardiovascular diseases and at leading the clients towards healthy life style at theoretical and practical level. To meet one of the aim of the research project there was physiotherapist, nutritionist and psycholog also involved in th...

Introduction: Besides the conditions under which an individual is born, grows up and grows old, health literacy is an important factor participating in the quality of health. Health promotion and prevention of diseases include, through all the individual`s life, a wide range of activities contributing to the health improvement of population in individual countries. The traditional areas contributing to the improvement of health quality include the public health protection and promotion and health education. The he...

The article is devoted to the complex consideration of the problem of health protection as one of the most important directions of the social policy of the modern state. Noting the social orientation of the majority of democratic states, the authors point to the inextricable link between the notions of social assistance and health protection. This conclusion they draw on the basis of analysis of international and domestic legal acts. In the study of the question of the place and role of health in the structure of ...