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Public Health Risk Factors: Lifestyle

In the determination of morbidity and mortality the role the behavioral factor, i.e. people's attitude towards their own health, is constantly increasing. Lifestyle and health-promoting activity define about 50% of public health, along with such factors as heredity, environment and healthcare. Using statistical data and sociological monitoring, we analyze the major trends in public health and lifestyle of the population in Vologda Oblast. In Vologda Oblast 46% of the population are content about their health. The number of respondents who rated their health as bad or very bad fell by almost one half. It is shown that the number of people who see themselves as partly or fully responsible for their own health is growing in the region. In 2013, this figure increased to 88% of the population. It is revealed that only 6% of the population in the region does not demonstrate any destructive components of self-preservation behavior, while 94% has at least one practice of self-destructive nature. However, year after year, positive forms of self-preservation behavior are becoming more common among the people in Vologda Oblast

Kalachikova O. N. [email protected]

Korchagina P. S. [email protected]

Keywords: public health lifestyle life interval Vologda Oblast

Collective attitudes and a system of determinants for human self-protecting behavior of the Russian population

The paper shows how collective attitudes influence upon the Russian people's consciousness and self-protective behavior. We review the most valuable researches concerning social attitudes, and we show how social attitudes determine behavior models. The description of the features of the Russian mentality such as collectivism and sobornost are presented. We also consider the results obtained by other studies which demonstrate a destructive impact of collectivism on the Russian' self-protective behavior models at present.

Vangorodskaya S. A. [email protected]

Keywords: life expectancy life interval self-protective behavior behavior determinants social attitude mentality collectivism