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The aim of the study was to investigate the dynamics of health status and morbidity of children aged 11-14 years during school year. In this study, the following methods were used: methods for assessing somatic health, data extraction from medical records, methods for the assessment of morbidity, and methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 176 children at 11 to 14 years of age. Results: The health status and indicators of morbidity were assessed. There was found a high morbidity rate with a predominance of acute respiratory viral infections and respiratory diseases. Most of the children had low and lower than average health levels.

Aging is inevitable part of a human life. However, there are a number of factors which can affect the rate of aging. One of these factors is physical activity. An increase in physical activity improves the health status, functional abilities in activities of daily living, slows the aging process, and delays the development of premature aging in elderly persons. Regular physical exercises can delay age-related changes in the body and are important and necessary to maintain good health and keep a high working capacity for a long time. Physical activity is of paramount importance to good health, increasing work capacity, and extended longevity. The aim of our study was to examine the effects of physical activity on aging processes in elderly persons on the basis of comparison between the biological and chronological age of the elderly, and assessment of their rate of aging. Material: The study involved two groups of respondents. The first group (n=38) consisted of the members of either Sportlife or Titan fitness clubs. The second group (n=35) included people who continued their education at the Kolping University of the Third Age in Chernivtsi. The respondents of the last group were not engaged in health-enhancing physical activity. A total of 63 people aged 60-73 years participated in the study. Results: It was found that the respondents of the experimental group had physiological indicators compared to those of the control group and their chronological age was 8.7 years ahead of the biological, whereas in the control group, the biological age of the respondents was 5.5 years ahead of the chronological age. The aging rate was substantially slowed down in 10.5% of the respondents of the experimental group and accelerated in 5.7% respondents of the control group.

Introduction. Persistent negative mental-emotional experiences and the body's responses to stress may have a negative impact on physical condition and mental-emotional status of students and provoke behavioral disorders. Health-enhancing recreational physical activity helps to cope with the negative influence of stress factors. The study was focused on the prediction of stress-related conditions in students and their prevention through healthenhancing recreational physical activity (HRPA). The aim of the study was to develop predictive models for assessing stress-related conditions among students and to identify the opportunities for their prevention through engagement in health-enhancing recreational physical activity based on the assessment of the relationship between physical activity and emotional status. Material & methods. The study involved 573 higher education students from various regions of Ukraine. The following methods were applied: surveying, statistical analysis using non-linear estimation methods and statistical classification methods based on data mining and machine learning methods, such as neural networks. Results. Statistically significant (p<0.05) logistic binary models were developed and scientifically substantiated, which can be used to predict stress-related conditions among higher education students based on data about their HRPA and behavioral characteristics in a long-term stressful situation. According to the survey data, the military conflict on the territory of Ukraine has provoked the emergence of emotional distress in 80.8% of respondents. It was found that regular engagement in HRPA and an active lifestyle allows predicting the maintenance of emotional well-being among students with a probability of 78.0%. Conclusions. The behavioral disorders in higher education students combined with lack of HRPA during the period of armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine significantly increase their risk of anxiety, aggressiveness, depressive states, and mood swings as well as lead to deterioration in physical condition and mental-emotional status. An active lifestyle, regular engagement in health-enhancing recreational physical activity, and cessation of bad habits increase students' adaptability to the impact of stress factors.

Purpose: to work out and scientifically substantiate the program of trainings with application of ecological tourism means for primary school pupils, oriented on pupils' ecological culture formation and increase of their physical condition indicators. Material: in the research 191 pupils (96 boys and 95 girls) from comprehensive schools participated. Physical culture teachers (n=12) were invited as experts. Degree of the questioned experts' opinions' concordance was checked with calculation of concordance coefficient. Assessment of pupils' physical health was fulfilled. For diagnostic of personal ecological settings we questioned pupils by verbal associative methodic. Results: we found that prevailing majority of the questioned pupils were out of safe health level. Results of pupils' physical condition analysis showed reduction of some indicators in period from second to forth form. The mentioned negative changes were conditioned by weakening of motor functioning and tensed learning activity. The structure of program includes 7 main aspects: educational, physical culture-health related, ecological, research, cultural-entertaining and informational. We determined that practicing of ecological research activity during walks, hiking and excursions facilitates children's understanding of interactions in the nature, formation of firm interest to environment, children's cognitive functioning. The content of the program includes merry starts with ecological tasks, practical classes of ecological school of safety, overcoming of obstacle course, mastering of orientation techniques, games in the fresh air, ecological competitions, quizzes, working out and marking ecological paths, arrangement of ecological path near own school. Conclusions: we initiated the structure and worked out the content of \"school ecological monitoring\" in process of extracurriculum physical education classes. The program contains diagnostic of ecological culture, level of adaptation-reserve potentials, motor functioning and physical health of primary school pupils.

Understanding the factors influencing stress-related states in higher education students during military conflict is crucial for developing interventions to mitigate stress in young people. Purpose: This study aimed to identify significant factors related to the impact of physical activity on stress-related states in Ukrainian university students and to analyze the relationships between these factors. Materials and methods: Sociological and psychodiagnostic approaches, along with statistical analysis, were applied. The study included 1,901 students from Ukraine. Results: Using general regression modeling (GRM), the study identified relationships between stress-related states, psychophysiological indicators, and various factors such as gender, lifestyle, physical activity (PA), bad habits, and the use of sedatives. Statistically significant (p<0.05) models were built that can predict the number of stress-associated conditions based on mood and well-being scores (Model 1) and on the presence of bad habits, use of sedatives, PA, and active lifestyle depending on gender (Model 4); the total score of students' psychophysiological indicators based on the presence of stress-related states (Model 2) and on the basis of data on gender, bad habits, use of sedatives, PA, and active lifestyle (Model 3). It was proved that an active lifestyle and systematic PA partially affect the psychophysiological indicators of students. According to Model 3, a sedentary lifestyle leads to a decrease in the total score of the indicators by 5.8% from 21.16 to 19.94 points. Moreover, a sedentary lifestyle combined with the absence of regular PA causes a decrease in this parameter by 8.5% to 19.36 points. And, according to Model 4, the predicted number of stress-related states increases by 7.8% due to a sedentary lifestyle. Furthermore, students with bad habits can be predicted to have the highest number of stress-related states, especially in the absence of regular physical activity. Conclusions. The developed GRM-models can predict: the number of stress-related states based on the assessment of well-being and mood; the total score of psychophysiological indicators based on the presence of stress-related states and taking into account the gender of students; the probability of stress-related states in this population group. Furthermore, we obtained new information about the factors that affect the stress-related states in higher education students under military conflict conditions.

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the technology of screening of the physical condition of boys aged 15-17 years in the system of pedagogical control; it was developed the structure of the technology, the main components and their contents on the basis of determining of the informative indicators of physical development, morphofunctional state, physical fitness and working capacity of boys. On the basis of the results of the factor and correlation analysis, there were identified the informative indicators mostly characterizing the physical condition of boys. With the help of regression analysis, it was developed an express system for assessment of the physical condition of boys, its informativeness and validity were determined. The proposed screening system provides for an in-depth and express assessment of levels of the physical condition of boys aged 15-17 years and provides the opportunity to carry out the previous and current pedagogical control, to differentiate and individualize physical loads, to provide theoretical and practical recommendations, to select adequate means and methods for increasing the physical condition level.

The article studies the most popular means of health improving fitness among the female students of the I-II year of the Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University. 48 female students of the I-II year, aged 17-19 years with different levels of physical condition participated in the research. The purpose of the research was to determine the effect of means of health improving fitness on the physical condition of girls aged 17-19 years in the process of physical education. We found that trainings 2-3 times a week during a nine-month period have a health improving effect, which is due to the work of a large number of muscle groups with a mainly aerobics energy supply mechanism. In the article, on the basis of the pedagogical experiment, the positive dynamics of the effects of means of health improving fitness on physical development, functional state, physical capability and preparedness, as well as psycho-emotional state is presented. In the process of identifying the relation between the indicators of the psycho-emotional state and the studied personal fitness indicators, we established the existence of a significant number of reliable correlation interrelationships.

The purpose of this study was to determine the biogeometric profile of posture, quality of life and mental fitness of students during the process of physical education on the basis of extracts from medical records and somatometric research. Research data: To address the tasks at hand, the following methods were used: theoretical analysis and synthesis of data from special scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical observations, pedagogical testing, anthropometry, video recording and analysis of the biogeometric profile of students' posture using the Torso software, visual screening, and methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 182 first-year students from the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. Findings: The following types of postural disorders were observed in students: scoliotic posture was identified in 47.3% of the tested students; round-shouldered back was identified in 19.1% of the tested students; and rounded back was identified in 16.4% of the tested students. Physical fitness in students was identified according to their posture type. Quality of life of the students was determined based on the physical fitness and posture type. The study demonstrated that physical activity significantly contributes to improving the quality of life of student population.

The goal of this research is to determine the structure and amount of physical activity for 11-14-yearold children during curricular and extracurricular hours. Research data: the research involves 252 fifth to ninth grade students ages 11-14 (122 boys and 130 girls) from general education schools in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. A technique developed by scientists from the Framingham State University (physical activity timing) is used to evaluate the level of physical activity. Findings: low-level physical activity has been found to prevail in children of all age groups of interest during curricular and extracurricular hours.

The publications of recent years show the activity of researchers in the field of development and implementation of health programs for elderly people, which will help delay the aging process of the body. The aim of our study was to provide a theoretical rationale for the technology of planning and management of recreational and health-enhancing leisure activities for elderly people, to determine its scope and to identify the conditions for its optimal functioning and implementation. Methods and organization of the study: scientific and methodological literature review, sociological methods, pedagogical methods, method for assessment of the level of physical activity, method for assessment of the level of physical working capacity, method for assessment of the psycho-emotional state using well-being-activity-mood (WAN) questionnaire, method for measuring pain using Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for pain, method for testing cognitive functions with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) test, and methods of mathematical statistics. A total of 58 people aged 60 to 73 years participated in the study, among them 28 respondents were included in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. They had a healthy lifestyle and visited social centers to participate in health walking activities. Results: Development and implementation of the technology of planning and management of recreational and health activities in the experimental group resulted in improvements in physical working capacity, psycho-emotional state, the level of pain, cognitive functions, and the level of somatic health of elderly people as compared with the control group. Conclusions: The program of recreational and health activities has a positive effect and improves the physical working capacity of elderly people as well as plays a decisive role in improving health and reducing the rate of aging.