The textbook covers modern concepts of health, factors influencing health, health risk factors, human needs and ways to meet them, and the role of nursing staff in the maintenance and promotion of health. Presents the main indicators describing the demographic situation in Russia and the world, anatomical and physiological and psychological characteristics of healthy people of different age, possible problems that could have an impact on health in different age periods.
The material presented in the textbook contribute to the development of the competencies required of nursing personnel in the preservation and strengthening of health of healthy person.
For students of institutions of secondary professional education in healthcare 31.02.01 "medicine", 31.02.02 "Obstetric business", 34.02.01 "Nursing".