ATTITUDE TO HEALTH AND HEALTHSAVING BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG MEN LIVING IN BELARUS
The development of an area that has not been studied so far - vital behavior, which is based on the person's awareness of his own active role in creating conditions that promote the preservation and enhancement of health, and the high value of health among individual life values, - is the most promising in the search for ways to influence on health behavior. In order to reveal the peculiarities of attitudes towards health and behavior in preserving it of young men living in Belarus, to reveal the medical and social portrait of men with the most favorable characteristics of health preservation, an analysis of the survey data of 895 men aged 18-30 (sample representative of the republican) was carried out. It was revealed that a potential young Belarusian, who responds to the most favorable behavioral characteristics in relation to his own health (physically active, without bad habits, without depression, suicidal thoughts, assessing health as the main life value) - is more often a city dweller, regardless of age (within the studied age limits of 18-30 years) having higher education or receiving it, married, brought up in a full family with a favorable moral and psychological climate, who often had higher education, in favorable financial conditions.In the development and implementation of integrated prevention measures to preserve the demographic potential of Belarus, special attention should be paid to this group of young men.