Abstract:
The research was aimed to develop a set of
recommendations on maintaining public health within
student community. For the practical achievement of the
research goal, there were studied: students’ self-perceived
health status and their physical and moral reaction to
COVID-19; their thoughts while onlooking relatives’
reaction in the conditions of self-isolation, and students’
opinion on new interaction with tutors in frame of online
education. This part of the research was carried out from
November, 2020 till May, 2021. Respondents were the
students of South region of Ukraine, who study disciplines
with some risk for public health system, namely, future
seafarers and medical workers. In our work we drew on
theoretical and practical conclusions made by the
American, European and Ukrainian researchers of public
health system and of cooperation between a teacher and a
student in the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic. The
theoretical aspect devoted to specification of such concepts
as "public health", "public health within student
community", is connected with the practical one, and
allows to elaborate the unique research tooling and to
reflect its components during a sociological poll with the
help of questionnaire analysis. Application part of work is
based on an empirical social research of transformations of
students’ feelings and opinions under the influence of
pandemic, drawing on the analysis of moral difficulties that
the students of higher educational institution faced in terms
of sudden and drastic change to a remote format of learning
being fully separated from an educational group.
Recommendations and conclusions are made by the
authors in order to safeguard public health within student
community.
