THESES ON THE METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BUILDING YOUR OWN HEALTH

Abstract

The article highlights the critical state of the health care system both in the world and in the post-Soviet space, which is built on the exclusive responsibility of the state. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the methodological foundations of the theory and practice of building one's own health. The example of the Republic of Tatarstan shows the weak effectiveness of the efforts of representatives of the medical industry to improve preventive work among the population due to the unwillingness of a large part of the population not only to take responsibility for their health, but even to cooperate with doctors. As an alternative, an approach is proposed, when as a result of involvement in the so-called non-professional physical education (NpFE) while studying at a higher education institution, the future graduate himself begins to consciously protect his own health and actively deploy the practice of building his own health. Anthropotechnics, as a "technological" field, is the core of the National Federal Institute of Technology, which should provide technologies and means of developing and implementing appropriate behavior programs, here for the practice of building one's own health. Anthropotechnics is a way of self-change of people, for which the individual is both the subject and the object of these self-changes. Methodological provisions regarding the essence of building one's own health and NpFE are presented. The topic of education, which is not limited to the acquisition of knowledge, but contributes to the inclusion of a person in relevant activities, including building one's own health, has been put on the health care agenda. Thus, health is the desired state of a person according to actualized values, which he acquires as a result of the actual practice of protecting his own health. Health care can be imagined as a complex that incorporates mechanisms of different design and content (ideas, policies, medical institutions, ways of behavior, etc.) related to an individual's concern for health, including the processes of non-professional physical education. It is necessary to distinguish between NpFE (this is a process that promotes the initiation of health activities of a self-determined person) and physical education of an individual - this is the corresponding state of a motivated and active person. Here we are talking about conscious health care, as the departure of a physically educated and active person who takes responsibility for his health, from the existing unproductive practice of only medical care in the appropriate specialists and institutions.