The article deals with the problem of improving the health of the population through the implementation of the national project «Demography» and one of its components — the federal project «Strengthening Public Health». The author analyzed the project passport in detail, determined the full participation of interested performers and co-performers in it, and the organization of control over its implementation in terms of the mechanisms for forming a system of motivating citizens to a healthy lifestyle.

The article substantiates the urgency of the problem of forming healthy lifestyle skills in students of general educational organizations. The authors proceed from the recognition of the leading role of a healthy lifestyle in the system of factors affecting human health, as well as from the requirements of the Federal state educational standards for personal educational results in the field of preservation and promotion of health. This study is devoted to an integrated assessment of the subjective prerequisites for a healthy lifestyle in students of general educational organizations. The article presents the results of a survey of students regarding their relationship to a healthy lifestyle in dynamics over a three-year period. The statistical data on the subjective prerequisites of a healthy lifestyle — ideas, motivation, behavior, which together determine the attitude to a healthy lifestyle as an integral phenomenon, is analyzed. The authors emphasize the interconnection and mutual influence of the subjective prerequisites of healthy lifestyle on the formation of sustainable habits of health-preserving behavior. The method of comparative analysis revealed the contradictions between knowledge and motivation, knowledge and behavior, motivation and behavior. The subjective psychological prerequisites for a healthy lifestyle are not consistent and contradict each other, which negatively affects the formation of healthy lifestyle habits. The ideas about the requirements of a healthy lifestyle are largely socially desirable and reflect the cognitive patterns of a healthy lifestyle transmitted in the sociocultural environment of children. The value of one’s own health is not realized and is not lived, and, as a result, understanding the importance of health and a healthy lifestyle does not contribute to the consolidation of conscious, focused and sustainable health-preserving behavior.

The analysis of the work of medical personnel in children's clinics in schools determines the relevance of training teaching staff on issues of hygiene education and child health protection. This will allow teachers to interact with the medical service that provides primary medical care to schoolchildren in the main sections of prevention of school diseases. The laboratory of personal development and health saving of the Moscow city pedagogical University has developed and implemented a program of additional professional education of teachers «Normative and legal bases of children's health protection in educational organizations». The purpose of this work is to evaluate the program of additional professional education by its students for further improvement of the system of prevention of school diseases. The assessment was conducted using a questionnaire method. A total of 36 teachers who were trained in the program participated in the survey. The results of the survey showed the relevance of this program, satisfaction with the expectations of students, and also identified areas for further work to improve additional education of teachers in this area.

Today we may witness a dire need to research how the urban environment influences urban health, well-being, and sustainability of local communities. The issue of urban health is closely connected with disease prevention projects and the integration of new preventive medical approaches with educational technologies. Due to a large number of responsible parties for the development of health literacy under the authority of different establishments, there is a problem to coordinate aligned activities. Thus the research of the healthcare institutions actions in health literacy development is extremely relevant. The objective of this research is to carry out an integral assessment of the degree to which the functions of preventing non-communicable diseases and developing health literacy are fulfilled by the sectors responsible for urban healthcare. The methods used in this research include a two-phase expert survey: the first group of experts (n: 24) selected the key aspects of healthcare activities, and the second group of experts (n: 35) assessed the quality of implementation of tasks by institutions in charge of disease prevention. The major problem is the lack of effective communication mechanisms in the sphere of intersectoral cooperation, informing the key disease prevention bodies of distributed responsibility, as well as state and social control of execution of laws and regulations. According to the obtained results, the state healthcare system is an important component of the health infrastructure. The functions connected with meeting the vital needs of the city population received medium-high ratings. However, the implementation of disease prevention functions by the healthcare system in Moscow was rated by experts at a low level. Besides, the experts consistently assigned an extremely low rating to the development of health literacy as one of the areas of activity covered by all sectors. To reinforce their outreach and awareness-raising work in the sphere of healthcare, executors of federal projects have to incorporate educational activities into their daily work.

The article is devoted to an important problem of literacy of the population in the field of health preservation. The authors conduct a brief analysis of school textbooks that address the problems of epidemic diseases, including viral etiology, measures of control and prevention. The article draws attention to the shortcomings of the schemes offered by the publications and makes recommendations for changing the content of the educational literature.