Assessment of basic behavioural risks concerning health of students attending Medical University

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• self-estimation of one's health
• students
• risk factors
• nutrition
• combining work and study
• lifestyle
• medical activity
• medical aid organization
• prevention
• healthcare program