HEALTH-SAVING PRACTICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER PANDEMIC CONDITIONS: A PILOT STUDY

Background. In the context of the pandemic, the issue of maintaining and developing health by the younger generation, who create new health-saving practices, has been actualized. The aim. An analysis of the health saving practices of young people in a large industrial city. Materials and methods. The method of collecting information was an online survey of young people in Yekaterinburg (n = 120). Also 37 semi-formalized interviews were conducted. Results. The young generation highly evaluates their health (69 %); 56 % are self-treated. At the same time, 93 % trust the system of medical care, doctors, and prescribed medications. 90 % ofrespondents during the pandemic paid more attention to personal hygiene. 2/3 try to control stress. 51 % take vitamins. The interviewees try to exclude crowded places. Pandemic transforms perceptions of the body, which prescribes functionality and performance. Conclusions. The“repertoire”ofhealth-saving practices in the conditions ofthe pandemic changes. “Methodofaddition”is representedby actualization of personalhygiene withthe use of personal protective equipment, online communications, taking vitamins.“Exclusion method”refers to avoidcrowdedplaces. Among the respondents there are roughly equalproportions of young people who supportanddo notsupport vaccination, as wellas those who are neutralaboutit. The body is seen as a functional resource that can “work” in the conditions of the “new normality”. © 2022 Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved