Health Assessment of Students: Results of Empirical Research
N recent years interest in youth issues has sharply increased in science, and that needs actualized new objective assessment of the youth’s role in modern socio-cultural, political and economic processes. At present the situation of the Russian youth is very contradictory and ambiguous. On the one hand, social situation of young people changes under the influence of the processes of democratization and transformation of institutions of socialization of young people, the collapse of the old system of values, a new model of social policy of the Russian state. On the other hand, young people as a strategic resource of any state are responsible for its future, are involved in the transformation of all spheres of government and preserve the continuity of history and culture. The level of health is a determining factor of youth tasks assigned by the process of development of the society and the civilization. The article summarizes the results of empirical research aimed at as- sessment of students’ health status, factors affecting its status, and identification of the most important issues concerning student youth.