Отношение к здоровью и профилактике заболеваний — как показатель общественного здоровья

The aim of this review was to summarize and analyze a number of population-based studies about attitudes to health and the prevention of cardiovascular diseases as a person’s life position. The article discusses the self-assessment of health as an independent predictor of morbidity in terms of gender and age, and also emphasizes that self-assessment of health is a multidimensional parameter of a person’s well-being. Attention is paid to the attitude of patients to treatment and medical activity, in particular cardiovascular diseases.