Socio-psychological nature of students' health self-evaluation and approaches to its changingy

The article bases on the results of empirical research in the Novgorod State University and discusses some issues of methodology and measurement techniques in the medical-sociological studying public health of the students. It reveals social-psychological grounds of the population’s self-appraisal of health and its relevancy to in health monitoring studies. Authors found deep discrepancies in the social-medical self-identifications by different groups of youth populations in the region. A contradicting connection in between the students’ health self-appraisals and their self-identifications by the scale of «a healthy man» is discussed as well as dynamics of these parameters by a number of social status indicators and duration of study in the University.