Assessment of basic behavioural risks concerning health of students attending medical university

We chose students from all the six years attending Medical and Prevention Faculty of Perm State Medical University named after academician E.A. Vagner as our research object. Our research goal was to examine and to assess basic behavioral risks which could cause health risks for students attending medical higher educational establishment. We applied a set of techniques in our work: information-bibliographic one (15 literature sources were studied, both periodicals and monographs), sociological one (467 students of Medical and Prevention Faculty were included into a one-time questioning, them all being an entire assembly), statistic one (we calculated relative values and mean values, as well as correlation coefficients). The research was performed in two steps; the first one was based on analyzing subjective evidence, namely, sociologic questioning results; in our second step we focused on examining pathologic damages as per medical examinations data as well as data on morbidity obtained from register of visits to a students' polyclinic. Students' health is a significant parameter of a society intellectual potential; specific weight of students, both males and females, who take care of their health amounts to 60.0 % and 96.5 % correspondingly. 100 % questioned girls and 58.3 % boys consider their health to be "good". There are gender-based discrepancies in estimating one's health state in all sub-groups and as per all reasons for its preservation. 45 % boys and 40 % girls with quite different self-estimation of their health combine work and study. Students tend to have bad habits as they constantly drink alcohol and smoke. Despite availability of considerable volumes of information on diseases prevention students don't try to use this information and preserve their health. Medical students' lifestyle has such peculiarities as non-rational nutrition, insufficient physical, social and medical activity.