FORMING VALUABLE ATTITUDE TO HEALTH AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS
The article presents the basics of the valuable attitude to health after conducting a theoretical analysis. Cognitive, emotionally-evaluative, behavioral-activity components of the valuable attitude of medical students to their health are identified. The authors define and characterize three levels of formation of each of the components (low, medium and high). Particular attention is paid to the connection of the valuable attitude to health with professional self-determination of students and giving some personal meaning to this process. The results of the research about the level of formation of the valuable attitude to the health among the students of Astrakhan State Medical University are presented. The experimental work of the authors and selected psychodiagnostic methods confirm the positive dynamic changes of the valuable attitude to health in the medical students, who underwent the research. An integral system of educational work at the university and, in particular, the realization of the program “University as a territory of health” are considered as an effective way of formation of the valuable attitude to health among the medical students.