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The deterioration of the quality of life, mental, physical, and social human disorders reveal themselves in reducing the level of its adaptation to daily psychological and physical stress, early development of neuroses, psychosomatic and mental illness in children and adults as well. Regarding this, one of the main strategies for the development of educational institutions is the organization of healthcare activities. In this context, the task of forming the readiness of future biology teachers to implement healthcare-saving technologies in the professional activity is gaining a significant importance. The need for development and substantiation of healthcare-saving activity theoretical and methodological foundations determines the relevance of the given problem and requires a profound rethinking of the essence as well as the content of healthcare-saving technologies educational implementation. The article reveals separate results of a pedagogical experiment conducted among future biology teachers within the educational process of the natural sciences faculties of pedagogical higher educational institutions. The experiment was aimed at forming the readiness of future biology teachers for the implementation of healthcare-saving technologies in their professional activities and was based on the introduction of active and interactive forms and methods of educational technologies in the formation of healthcare-saving knowledge, organization of health and conservation projects and the use of information-health technologies.

This article explores the content and main directions of scientific and research activities in higher education. It highlights the key types of research work and conceptual tasks undertaken in these institutions. The study clarifies the interconnected elements, components, principles, and priority areas for organizing, developing, and enhancing the effectiveness of students' research activities. It emphasizes the need to integrate creative methods and cloud-oriented technologies into higher education to foster the creative abilities of future professionals. To assess the effectiveness of these approaches, a pedagogical experiment was conducted. The hypothesis posited that a well-organized research process in higher education institutions leads to a high level of research competence in senior undergraduate and graduate students. During the experiment, cloud-based technologies and innovative research methods and forms were implemented in university education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The professions of physical therapist and ergotherapist are becoming increasingly important nowadays. The article is devoted to the formation of professional culture of future physical therapists and ergotherapists in the process of professional training in higher education institutions. It is established that professional culture is an integral quality of personality, which projects its general culture into the sphere of profession and covers a high level of professionalism and internal qualities of a specialist. It is a component of the general culture of the individual, based on the professional knowledge, skills, values, motives and norms of behavior that contribute to the effective performance of professional activities. Empirical (questionnaires, interviews, surveys, observations, testing to determine the level of professional culture of future bachelors in physical therapy and ergotherapy, pedagogical experiment) and theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization) methods of research were used in this study. The components of professional culture of future physical therapists and ergotherapists (motivational, cognitive, activity orientated and reflexive), relevant criteria (person-motivational, informationcognitive, communicative-activity and reflexive-empathetic), indicators and levels of measurement of physical culture formation of future physical therapists and ergotherapists are determined. The pedagogical experiment involved the introduction of the author's system of professional culture formation of future physical therapistsand ergotherapists in the process of professional training in higher education institutions. The results of the experiment led to the conclusion that the implementation of contextual learning in professional disciplines, the formation of soft skills, the development of reflection and empathy of applicants contribute to improving the professional culture of future professionals in specialty 227 «Physical Therapy, Ergotherapy». In the experimental groups, the level of professional culture of future physical therapists and ergotherapists increased by each component. The professional culture formation of future physical therapists and ergotherapists is a mandatory component in their professional training in higher education institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. In many countries around the world, about 63% of deaths are caused by chronic noncommunicable diseases. Obesity is one of the factors in the development of a number of noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular, diabetes, etc.). It is the most common metabolic disease among people of all ages in all countries. The WHO (the World Health Organization) recognized obesity as a new non-communicable «epidemic» of our time. Despite the fact, that noncommunicable diseases kill adults more frequently, the predisposition to risk factors begins in childhood and its negative consequences accumulate throughout the lifespan. That is why regular monitoring of the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents is relevant and appropriate. Materials and methods. 340 schoolchildren, including 196 boys aged 8-16 and 144 girls aged 8-15 research took part in the research. Analysis of the prevalence of overweight and obesity among schoolchildren was carried out using anthropometric data (body weight and height) and the calculation of the body mass index, taking into account the standards of the percentiles. Results and conclusions. The results of the study during 2017-2020 showed that a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity was observed in boys aged 8-12 years and girls aged 8-11 years. The predominance of overweight and obese people among girls or boys cannot be stated unequivocally, because of a disproportion throughout the years. In 2017 and 2020, a higher percentage of overweight people was observed among boys, in 2018-2019 - among girls. The prevalence of obesity in 2017-2018 was higher among girls, in 2019-2020, respectively, among boys. It was also found that the percentage of obese and overweight schoolchildren during the study period was high. In 2020 there was a significant increase of obese and overweight schoolchildren in comparison with previous years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience of preserving and strengthening the health of the younger generation contains many theoretical positions and practical achievements on the physical, mental, spiritual and mental development of the individual. Analysis of classifications of current health technologies made it possible to create a composition of technology for educating the personality of the future teacher in terms of creating a health environment of higher education, covering four components, which aim to form health knowledge, skills, health promotion and reproduction participants of the educational process, is to create safe conditions for stay, study and work in higher education, solves the problem of rational organization of the educational process, allows to maintain the current state of health of students, forms a higher level of their health competence, healthy lifestyle skills, namely: - the introduction of the Olympic movement in the education of the future teacher in a healthy environment of higher education increases the motivation of future professionals to health, physical culture and sports, and as a consequence, prevents smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction, forms a rational attitude to their health; - the formation of a culture of health in the education of the future teacher in terms of creating a healthy environment of higher education covers pedagogical, psychological, social aspects, the main task of which is to form a positive attitude of the future specialist to their own health and personal lifestyle their understanding of values, giving priority to health care through education;- the use of the principles of rational and balanced nutrition in the education of the future teacher in the creation of a healthy environment of higher education provides a high level of efficiency, and as a result of maintaining health and well-being;- development of health-preserving activity in education of the future teacher's personality in the conditions of creation of health-preserving environment of higher education institution provides development of motor qualities, activity, correction of own behavior, improvement of health-preserving processes of vital activity, support and strengthening of physical, mental, social and spiritual health future specialist. It should be noted that the technology involves an active position of the future specialist, the desire to change and be able to neutralize the negative impact of both internal and external barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. The study of historical and pedagogical sources, as well as issues of formation, strengthening and preserving the health of the child became the object of scientific analysis for many representatives of the pedagogical science for a long time. Scientists of the past tried to substantiate the theoretical and methodological features of preserving the health of the child in a combination of mental development and physical education, emphasized the importance of training young people in accordance with her age, mental, physical abilities and abilities. In these circumstances, the problem of qualitative training of future specialists who are ready for education and formation of a healthy lifestyle, which will ensure the harmonious development of the individual of each child, as well as outline the main approaches to the implementation of healthcare-saving technologies in education, becomes of special urgency. Methods. Regarding the genesis of historical approaches and the analysis of the main trends in the development of scientific views on the preservation of health, a set of methods was used: theoretical methods: a comparative analysis of psycho-pedagogical, philosophical and health-saving literature for the synthesis of scientific facts regarding the development of healthcare-saving activity in society; retrospective analysis, scientific reflection to form a holistic view of the phenomenon of health preservation; empirical methods: diagnostic (sociological observations). Results. It is the study and analysis of the main trends in the development of scientific views on the preservation of health and health-saving activities, which became the basis for theoretical and practical developments, as well as the introduction of more advanced healthcare technologies in educational institutions. Conclusions. The main tendencies in development and modern development of scientific views on health preservation and health-saving activity are studied and analyzed. This article does not exhaust all aspects of the problem under consideration and updates the need for increased attention in relation to further fundamental research, theoretical and practical developments, and the introduction of the most advanced health-saving technologies in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. The article reveals the essence of the notion of «healthcare environment of a higher education establishment» as an environment of an individual, in which interconnected healthcare factors and conditions contributing to the social, spiritual, physical and mental development of the personality of the future teacher operate, the components of health as a prerequisite for the creation of a health-preserving environment, should ensure not only the preservation and strengthening of health, but also the formation of the health culture of the future specialist. The objective of this research: to uncover the process of creating a healthcare environment in the institution of higher education and its impact on the healthcare activities of future teachers. Methods. During the implementation of this research the complex of general scientific methods has been used: an observation as a systematic purposeful study of the object; a poll as the most common method of obtaining information; a comparative analysis as a comparison of features inherent in two or more objects; a pedagogical experiment, which was used to create a healthcare environment in the institution of higher education and check its impact on the dynamics of the level of a healthcare activity by the future teachers. Results. After the conducted study, the following data were obtained: 10,2% of students in the control group and 20.9% of students in the experimental group have a high level of healthcare activity, 29,3% and 53,8% of students possess a sufficient level respectively, 33,8% of students in the control group and 19,1% of students in the experimental group showed an average level, 26,7% of students in the control group and 6,2% of students in the experimental group have a low level of a healthcare activity. Conclusions. Thus, the creation of healthcare environment in an institution of higher education is a process that requires a clear awareness by all subjects of the educational process about the importance of a responsible attitude towards their own health. Prospects for further researches lie in further study the theory and practice of future teacher's personality upbringing in the healthcare environment in the institution of higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]