Formation of a health culture among adolescents as a key factor for the society development

Objective: to assess the dynamics of the formation of a culture of health and the perception of their own health by schoolchildren on the example of students at the stage of pre-professional medical education. Material and methods. The study was conducted on the basis of the Pre-University of Sechenov University. A questionnaire was used to assess the physical, mental, social and spiritual components of health culture. A questionnaire was used to assess the key components of the culture of health: physical; Mental; social and spiritual. In 2018, 260 teenagers (171 girls and 89 boys, average age - 16,6±0,74 years) were interviewed, in 2024 - 702 (519 girls and 183 boys, average age 16,3±0,91 years). The data were analyzed using the Pearson χ2 test with Yeats correction, and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was calculated to study the relationship between qualitative features.