International Strategies for a Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention in Young People
Authors: Zhylka Nadiya , Shcherbinska Оlena , Zhdanova Oksana 
Published: November 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines that people in all walks of life should have a healthier lifestyle, noting that a healthy lifestyle (HLS) is one that reduces the risk of serious illness or premature death. Scientific studies have identified certain types of behavior that increase the risk of developing infectious and non-infectious diseases and early death [1].
According to the literature sources, the main modern international strategies regarding the right to HLS, observance of these rights in different countries, as well as the timeliness of the documented strategies for today’s challenges regarding youth health problems are analyzed. The strategies for solving the health problems of youth and adolescents are highlighted according to their impact on the rated negative indicators of youth health, namely: problems of injuries, accidents on the water, mental health, use of alcohol, tobacco, psychoactive substances, violence, nutrition and physical inactivity, reproductive health and teenage pregnancy, infectious diseases, in particular HIV infection and tuberculosis. The presented indicators of the health of youth and adolescents are in the plane of international strategies for a healthy lifestyle.
The international community of scientists is sure that rating health problems have a behavioral nature of their occurrence. In order to develop and implement the best healthy lifestyle strategies at the international, national and local levels to help adolescents and young people to be informed about harmful behavioral practices in order to prevent them and thus acquire a better and longer life.
International strategies for success in solving youth health problems are characterized by systematicity, relevant and timely response to this or that problem, intersectorality, responsible communication, state support and active community participation. Bibliosemantic and analytical methods were used to study the main international strategies for the implementation of elements of a healthy lifestyle for the purpose of forming and preserving the health, quality and length of life of young people.
Based on the analysis, it can be stated that the issue of forming a healthy lifestyle among teenagers and young people is a priority issue at the global level and at the national level of developed countries.
International strategies on the lifestyle of young people are developed in response to the main health problems, which are monitored on an ongoing basis with detailed information to countries in various forms: generalized WHO reports and resolutions of international forums, proposals based on the results of numerous studies of the state of youth health, strategic tasks regarding the solution of youth health problems, in particular of a behavioral nature.
WHO is a leader in generalizing the main problems of youth health and creating international working groups to develop unified strategies, emphasizing that the formation of the principles of a healthy lifestyle in adolescence will be a significant positive result in terms of health, quality and length of life of adults.
In the international strategies, it is emphasized that measures for the formation of a healthy lifestyle among teenagers should have significant political and financial state support, an interdisciplinary nature with the participation of the community of each country, as well as a systematic implementation.
The analyzed international strategies regarding the lifestyle of young people are designed to draw the attention of the countries of the world to the main health problems of young people, which, if they are not solved, are indicated throughout the life of each person, negatively affecting the quality and length of his life. International strategies which are generalized and supported by the WHO are a ready methodical tool for developing national strategies in the countries of the world, taking into account the cultural characteristics of each country.