Procestination as a mediator of interrelationship of personalities and indicators of health

According to epidemiologists, the main risks that threaten human health have changed significantly. Currently, the most significant are the «diseases of civilization», depending on the lifestyle - smoking, physical inactivity, overweight, etc. The article defines the contradiction between the availability of information on prevention, a healthy lifestyle and the completely opposite behavior of our contemporaries. The question of the predictors of such a situation, the mechanisms of its formation and possible ways of overcoming it is possible when studying the phenomenon of procrastination in the sphere of health, since it is related to personality traits and is directly manifested in human behavior, because it is expressed in action - or, more accurately in its absence - delaying the implementation of timely actions at a later date.