Religious activity of population as factor of manifestation of social troubles associated with health and safety

Yavorska Victoria, Kostaschuk Ivan. Religious activity of population as factor of manifestation of social troubles associated with health and safety. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(11):751-762. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2649866 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6855 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author(s) 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 19.11.2018. Revised: 22.11.2018. Accepted: 30.11.2018. UDC: 911.3 RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY OF POPULATION AS FACTOR OF MANIFESTATION OF SOCIAL TROUBLES ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY Victoria Yavorska Odesa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov, Ukraine yavorskaya@onu.edu.ua Ivan Kostaschuk Chernivtsi National University named after Yurii Fedkovych, Ukraine ivan_kostaschuk@ukr.net Summary This article studies the impact peculiarities of the population’s religious activity on the manifestation of social troubles. The territory of Ukraine was chosen for research. It has been established that the religious activity of the population correlates significantly with diseases associated with moral qualities of the population, namely HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, etc., as well as various manifestations of crimes. To establish the relationships and their justification, a method of linear correlation was chosen which helped to establish different degrees of mutual impact. The most noticeable impacts on demographic components are presented in the article. Key words: religious activity, atheists, believer population, incidence of disease, crime, serious crimes