Determinants of students’ healthy lifestyle development

The paper focuses on the importance of a healthy lifestyle development among students, which is reflected in the Concept of Health System Development in the Russian Federation until 2020. The authors identify the determinants of a healthy lifestyle development, which include: spatial-environmental, motivational-reflexive, activity-methodical, tutor-project determinants. These determinants are interrelated; it provides an increase in the efficiency of a healthy lifestyle development among students. In the field of activity-methodical determinant the authors consider problems of practice-oriented training of teachers. The results of a survey among students and teachers show that students are not ready to accept the values of a healthy lifestyle while teachers are not ready to use health-saving technologies. In this regard, the authors have developed and tested a program for improving teachers qualifications in the field of health preservation, contributing to the development of skills to apply health saving technologies. The tutor-project determinant determines a functional field of the tutor in project activities of students aimed at health preservation.