The motivation of citizen to follow healthy life-style by means of forming leader qualities in future medical specialists
In actual conditions health care priority is in increasing population size and its life expectancy including duration of healthy life, reducing morbidity, mortality and disability of population, observance of rights of citizens related to health protection that can effectively be achieved by adherence of healthy lifestyle.In order to determine possibility of improving motivation of population to lead healthy lifestyle, through formation of leadership qualities in medical specialists, the study applied such methods as expert evaluation, questionnaire survey, interview, monographic and statistical techniques. The sampling consisted of 46 employees of the I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University as experts, 107 students of this educational organization were involved in questionnaire survey and interviewing, and 68 of them were included in the group with pronounced leadership qualities, and 39 respondents consisted the control group.Involving population into healthy lifestyle is priority task of all medical specialists that is regulated by work functions of their professional standards. The effective direction of this work is to influence internal motivation of citizens. The presence of leadership qualities in future medical specialists increases their ability to motivate the population to lead healthy lifestyle at the level of theoretical training by 33.3% and practical training by 65.5% as compared to control group. The main directions of improving motivational work to involve population into healthy lifestyle by future medical specialists is refusal by students' bad habits, teaching them specialized topics in all related disciplines, formation of students' leadership potential. To develop student's leadership skills, training program can be applied in the laboratory of excellence “Factory of health leaders”, implemented at the N. A. Semashko Department of public health and health care.