[Passporting of parents of disabled children as an analytical resource of social policy].

The article presents the results of a study of the main social and household characteristics of families with disabled children, conducted in the territory of the Belgorod region (targeted survey; n = 990). The research made it possible to answer questions about children's health problems, their living conditions, the economic status of the family, the work of parents, the social environment and other characteristics of families. The article examines the passporting method of target problem (socially vulnerable) groups as an effective way of obtaining system information, a social picture of the situation, conditions, and problems of such families. The results of the research made it possible to determine the risks associated with the condition of children who require constant help and support, the category of families with unsatisfactory living conditions, the need for advanced training and retraining among parents. An important result of the study was the income map of families with disabled children, which identified the problematic characteristics of the socially vulnerable group and helped determine the directions of primary assistance and support. The scientific result of the article is the conclusion about the need for systematic control of all problematic components of the life of families raising disabled children, about the need for monitoring such information for the organization of targeted assistance and changes in social policy to meet the actual needs of such families.

[The studying of motivation of student youth to healthy life-style].

The article considers motivation of students to maintain healthy life-style. The empirical study was carried out on the basis of the Institute of Social Sciences and Mass Communications of the The Belgorod State National Research University (n=440; proportional sampling was based on characteristics of gender, age and course of education). The study results concerning most preferred sources of information about healthy lifestyle, factors of formation of attitudes and habits of healthy life-style, subjective ideas about one's own health and components of healthy life-style are analyzed. The study established that unstable motivational attitudes to healthy life-style are associated with lacking of awareness of value of health as most important factor of life well-being, conniving attitude to one's own health, lacking of competence in matters of health dependence and various aspects of life, lack of formed behavioral standards of healthy lifestyle. The conclusion is made about necessity of forming sustainable motivation for healthy life-style in students.

[The prevention of tobacco smoking and development of skills of healthy life-style in students of professional educational institutions].

The purpose of the study is to analyze issues of prevention of smoking among college students and to reveal influence of social environment including influence of healthy lifestyle to development addiction. The study was based on value social model of health. The study covered student survey (n = 495, proportional selection by gender, age, year of study) and standardized interview with youth professionals (n = 21) to analyze in the youth the main motives for smoking, attitudes to healthy lifestyle and preventive social work methods that are implemented in colleges. The comparative analysis of data was carried out in subgroups of smoking and non-smoking students and experts. The results of study demonstrated the unformed negative attitudes to smoking. Among 25% of smoking students and 39% of non-smoking students smoking itself is considered as mean of communication and integration in youth community. Among 45.6% of respondents the exposure to and conformal behavior as reasons for starting smoking were declared. The analysis of results of the study concerning assessing attitude to smoking from the perspective of fashion and social recognition occurred to be unexpected: the number of non-smoking students who assume smoking is fashionable is 17 times higher than the number of smokers who share these beliefs. The comparison of the data permitted to establish possible causes of such a distribution of answers: in everyday life, smokers are faced with various legislative restrictions and social censure, while their non-smoking peers focus on social communicative and recreational effects of this habit. There are particular contradictions in the interpretation by students and youth professionals of causes of smoking. This testifies certain unawareness of professionals about age-related psychological characteristics and emotional conditions of students.

[The analysis of expert survey on factors of self-preserving behavior of population of the central regions of Russia].

For the reproduction of healthy society, it is necessary to pay special attention to self-preserving behavior of population, since health is not only medical, but also and social category. The health acts both as result of interaction of individual and the social environment, and as key condition for successful implementation of social statuses and roles, viability of social system as a whole. The spontaneous "health-saving" socialization, and, as a result, lacking of formation of behavioral patterns related to maintaining and strengthening health, imitation practices of self-care, which are demonstrated by different social demographic groups, especially young population, form danger of development of chronic diseases, further deterioration of national health indices, including decreasing reproductive potential of the state and increasing risks of for demographic policy in the future. This dictate needs for systematic analysis of factors and causes that lead to weak behavioral activity of Russian population in matters of "health-saving", determining their significance and relationship with health indices. The expert survey was carried out that allowed to identify configuration of main factors and risks in the system "environment - health", significantly affecting development of patterns of behavior in relation to it. The participation of experts representing various areas of professional activity (health care, physical education, ecology, state and municipal administration, education and science) proves high reliability of results and makes it possible to consider localization of main external dangers with highest rates of negative impact on development of self-preservation attitudes. The overall pattern of significance of various factors determining possible variations and main line of behavior of population of the central regions of Russia in context of health conservation allows to bring to foreground personal factors associated with willingness to ensure reproduction of one's own health, infrastructural and socio-economic factors that determine individual and group opportunities for Russia population to use potential of "health-saving" attitudes as well as factors of trust acting as an impulse, activating relationship of population and health care system.