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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17879331 |
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- <p><span lang="EN-US">Maintaining public and individual health is one of humanity's key global challenges, the solution to which requires a comprehensive and in-depth study of numerous interconnected factors. In this paper, we consider health as a multifaceted phenomenon consisting of three interdependent components: the type of health (biological, psychological, and social aspects), the type of socio-cultural health standards (norms, values, and beliefs that shape attitudes towards health in society), and the variants of adapted social health preservation practices (actions and strategies aimed at maintaining and improving health). Understanding the dynamics and interrelationships of these components is crucial for developing effective public health strategies. The study employed a comprehensive approach, encompassing philosophical, biological, psychological, and sociological analysis. Particular attention was paid to the cultural-historical analysis of the dynamics of health sociocultural standards development, as well as conceptual modeling for identifying the theoretical foundations of empirical public health research and developing social practice programs in healthcare.</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The promotion of health as a complex, global, socio-cultural, and universal phenomenon, possessing enduring value throughout all times, is closely linked to the stages of civilizational development of human society. The multifactorial nature of the health phenomenon has necessitated the use of a systemic, transdisciplinary approach in the process of sociological construction, as a means of expanding scientific worldview within the framework of fundamental local worldviews. The result of generalizing philosophical, biological, and psychological knowledge in understanding the socially conditioned phenomenon of health has become the sociological concept of socio-cultural health standards. Socio-cultural health standards act as a normative-regulatory paradigm that constitutes the sociological understanding of health. They function as a reference system that sets the parameters for social health-preserving practices and guides them towards the implementation of the most stable and adaptive models aimed at maintaining and regenerating individual vitality. The statics and dynamics of socio-cultural health standards (ancient, adaptive, anthropocentric) are closely linked to the stages of human civilization development (pre-industrial – up to the 17th-18th centuries, industrial – 1649 (English Bourgeois Revolution) – 1870 (Unification of Germany), post-industrial – 1960s-1970s – present). An important characteristic of civilization is the self-identification of individuals, who associate themselves with a particular society, and constant change, leading to a shift in civilizational boundaries and a corresponding transformation of the matrix scheme of perceptions of health and illness, which most adequately reflects the worldview of a given period of societal development. The worldview underpinning technocratic civilization is based on philosophical tenets that sever the organic connection between humanity and nature, asserting humanity's dominant role as a full-fledged master and "king." This rupture is further exacerbated by the expanding scale of information technology use. By intensifying human alienation from nature, these technologies contribute to the emergence of numerous social problems that negatively impact the lives and health of individuals, social groups, and society as a whole. Within the context of a mass consumption society, which imposes a universal lifestyle, the balance of fundamental values in the hierarchy of modern human value orientations is distorted, with material wealth becoming the primary value. The further development of post-industrial civilization is linked to the transition from the post-industrial phase to the stage of transindustrialism. This transition is accompanied by the emergence of new technological and social challenges and risks that fundamentally alter human conditions and lifestyles. Moreover, the advent of the transindustrial stage threatens society with an unprecedented social crisis (colossal unemployment, appalling inequality, catastrophic changes in the societal way of life, etc.).</span></p>