Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot65210.32687/0869-866X-2021-29-4-918-927Научная статьяTHE PRACTICES OF SELF-PRESERVING BEHAVIOR OF RUSSIANS: THE RESULTS OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY “THE DEMOGRAPHIC SELF-FEELING OF RUSSIA”RostovskayaT. K.rostovskaya.tamara@mail.ruIvanovaA. E.-KnyazkovaE. A.-The Institute for Demographic Research - Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of SciencesThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Moscow State University of Technology ‘STANKIN’”The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Russian State Humanitarian University“2709202129491892728092021Copyright © 2021,2021Actually, one of the world trends in social policy in the field of health care is self-preserving behavior of population as readiness of each member of society to take responsibility for maintenance of one's own health and prolongation of life activity. The value of health becomes not only human, personally significant, but also social capital, without which it is impossible to achieve high indices of social development, as well as ensuring national security of the state. The measures of public policy of the Russian Federation are targeted to developing culture of self-preserving behavior of Russians, that is reflected in the national projects “Health care” and “Demography”. To assess the self-preserving behavior of Russians, it is necessary to achieve such asks as identification of the need in longevity and the degree of its implementation in various social demographic groups; assessment of features of self-preserving behavior in the context of motives of achieving longevity; determination of the response in various social demographic groups to demographic policy targeted to preserve population health and to decrease mortality; analysis of popular practices of self-preserving behavior. The article presents the results of sociological survey on the subject “Demographic well-being of Russia”, carried out by the Institute of social political research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2020-2021, in terms of the use by Russians of various practices of self-preserving behavior.healthdemographic behaviorself-preserving behaviorlongevityздоровьедемографическое поведениесамосохранительное поведениедолголетие1.Ростовская Т. К., Шимановская Я. В. Концептуальные подходы к изучению самосохранительного поведения мужского населения. Вестник Нижегородского университета им. Н. И. Лобачевского. Сер.: Социальные науки. 2014;5(2):45-53.2.Шаповалова И. С. Роль социальных институтов в формировании самосохранительного поведения населения Центрального округа. Вестник Института социологии. 2020;11(1):86-112.