Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot140210.32687/0869-866X-2025-33-1-5-10Научная статьяThe human health as resource of demographic development of the Eurasian Economic Union: the sociological aspectVolkovaOlga Alexandrovnavolkovaoa@rambler.ruThe Federal State Budget Institution “The Institute for Demographic Research — the Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, 119333, Moscow, RussiaThe State Budget Institution “The Research Institute of Health Care Organization and Medical Management” of the Moscow Health Care Department, 115088, Moscow, RussiaN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, Russia160420253311604202516042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article considers issues of personal social health as resource of demographic development of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) society. It is concluded that provision of not only physical and mental health but also social health (at level of individuals) has important significance for achieving public health (at society level), harmonious demographic development and long-term planning and management of demographic processes in member-states of the EAEU and in the EAEU as a whole. It is justified contemporary demographic policy is to step aside from concentration its primary attention on numerical indicators and to focus on qualitative amelioration of demographic situation. 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