Training of future teachers to the development of the cultural practices of the schoolchildren aimed at health promotion

The article deals with the analysis of the requirements to future teachers’ training in the sphere of the preservation and promotion of health resulting from the social and cultural transformation of the society. There are emphasized the criteria and levels of the readiness of the students of the pedagogical universities to the care of the children’s health. There are formulated the comments of the vector of the necessary changes in structuring the curriculum of the pedagogical universities.