Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot140610.32687/0869-866X-2025-33-1-33-41НеопределенThe self-preserving strategies of the youth: implementation of National projects and interestsShapovalovaI Sshapovalova@bsu.edu.ruKovalchukO Vkovalchuk@bsu.edu.ruThe Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Belgorod State National Research University”, 308015, Belgorod, Russia160420253311604202516042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article presents results of studying self-preserving strategies of regional youth obtained during through mass survey Life Strategies of Regional Youth in 2023. The survey clarified issues of self-preserving dispositions, behavior models and life plans of the youth. In relation to health, groups of four types were identified based on ratio of signs of awareness of value of health and purposeful actions of preserving it. The study demonstrated positive dynamics related to increasing of the number of the youth in group of being aware type and decreasing of the number of groups with destructive attitude to their health. The important scientific result became determination of weight of stratification signs related to reproduction of inequality in issues of implementation of self-preserving strategies of the youth. Thus, settlement sign, although indicating on elements of certain inequality in opportunities, brings no sufficient weight, while economic status of the youth significantly impact not only on life plans regarding health preservation and length of life, but also on self-preserving dispositions.</p>the youthnational projectself-preserving strategyself-preserving behaviorhealthмолодежьнациональные проектысамосохранительные стратегиисамосохранительное поведениездоровье1.Vorobyov G. A., Gafiatulina N. Kh., Samygin S. I. Formation of an attitude towards a healthy lifestyle as a measure of preventing deviant behavior among young people. Gumanitarnye, social'no-ekonomicheskie i obshchestvennye nauki. 2019;(10):54–8 (in Russian).2.Gareeva I. A., Konobeyskaya A. V. Healthy lifestyle of student youth as a social value and real practice (based on sociological research). Vlast' i upravlenie na Vostoke Rossii. 2020;(4):178–90 (in Russian).3.Kornienko V. V., Zhidyaeva E. S. 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