Issues of theoretical comprehension of the categories "way of life" and "healthy lifestyle"

Development of healthy lifestyle promotion programs, necessary for modern society, demands theoretical comprehension of issues of its reproduction where the starting point is to define the essence and the content of the category "healthy lifestyle". Science lacks a uniform approach to the category's understanding, which leads to complications in healthy lifestyle promoting, ambiguity in personal ideas of health and way of life correlation, spread of inefficient ways and forms of health saving activities. The article describes two approaches to the way of life as a social-philosophical category in terms of the role of the environment: 1. Conditions of the environment are not part of the way of life, they are factors that cause it (Butenko A.P., Lisitsyn Yu.P.). 2. Conditions of the environment are part of the way of life, along with its activities. (Batygin G.S., Bestuzhev-Lada I.V., Dridze T.M, Izutkin D.A., Glezerman G.E). The view on conditions of the environment as part of the way of life is justified; the dialectic nature of the interconnection of the "activity - conditions" system elements in the structure of a person's way of life is emphasized. When considering approaches to the definition of the healthy lifestyle, the shortcomings of its traditional understanding (a set of sample actions, a certain universal formula of activity) are shown. The article shows advantages of the approach oriented on real health improvement which assumes individual search and implementation of health saving activities. The understanding of the healthy lifestyle is given: it is a process of search and finding of forms and types of health preservation promoting activities, of desirable life expectancy achievement and their subsequent realization by a person and society. So, an important element of healthy lifestyle reproduction providing its efficiency (real improvement and preservation of health of a person) is knowledge assuming understanding of a true way of a person, his/her inner world, social essence, system of values and structure of requirements. Knowledge is an important condition for healthy lifestyle reproduction preserving and improving the physical, psychological and social health of a person.

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