Youth Health Status and Preventive Medicine

Abstract

Aim: The aim of our study was to assess the level of students' awareness of health and health rights and attitude toward
prevention and healthy lifestyle.
Methodology: A questionnaire has been developed and randomly selected 700 students of Tbilisi State University have
been interviewed in summer 2016. 654 fully answered questionnaires were analyzed.
Results: The study showed that the majority of students (71%) have a positive assessment of their health and do not visit
medical institutions for preventive examinations (68%). One third of students (33%) do not see a need for preventive
measures at all. Most of the students do not participate in any sports (74%), 68% has unhealthy diet and every third student uses tobacco (32%). Most students do not have information about the health insurance and therefore do not use student health insurance (69%).Most students feel that they do not have complete information about their health (77%) and
lack of information about their rights to health (81%), although they are interested in medical and health-related legal
issues.
Conclusion: Many students face financial problems while taking medical care, reason is young people are not adequately informed about their health insurance.Most youth polled did not have complete information about their health, however, are interested in health-related issues