Keyword: «attitudes towards health»

One of the central concepts of health sociology is the notion of “attitude to health,” which includes a system of value-motivational attitudes that link the individual and society. Attitude to health is a sociocultural phenomenon, which is a system of individual links of the individual with various phenomena of the surrounding reality, improving or threatening the health of people, as well as a certain assessment of the individual physical and mental condition. The article presents the results of a research aimed at studying attitudes towards health among young citizens of Russia, namely Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Perm residents. There are differences in the scales of attitude towards healthy lifestyles among representatives of large and smaller cities of the Russian Federation. The general index of attitudes towards health is more pronounced among representatives of large Russian cities - St. Petersburg and Moscow. At the same time, the emotional aspect of the attitude towards healthy lifestyles dominates among Moscow youth, the cognitive aspect - among young Perm residents. The social sphere is more affected by young residents of Moscow and Yekaterinburg, and the scale of actions related to healthy lifestyles is more obvious among respondents from St. Petersburg. In general, the predominant low level of intensity was characteristic for the majority of young Russian citizens when diagnosing a value attitude to health. The study of the behavioral component of the health culture by means of another method showed similar results. Health-improving activities are also mainly at the average level for the majority of respondents, regardless of their belonging to the region. Nevertheless, the number of respondents with a high level of health-improving activity is much more among young people from Moscow and St. Petersburg.