Categorial Analysis of the “Higher Educational Institution Educator’s Professional Health” Concept

The article reviews the problem of professional health of an educator of higher educational institution (HEI) on the basis of the analysis of corresponding legal framework of Ukraine in the field of healthcare as a promising area for the formation of health-preserving competence of young people. Emphasis is placed on the cultural and historical experience of mankind, the social practice of treatment from the standpoint of antiquity (health as internal coherence); adaptive (health as an individual’s adaptation to the environment); anthropocentric (health as a multifaceted self-realization — the disclosure of the creative and spiritual potential of the individual) standards of healthcare. Theoretical analysis of basic categories / concepts of the actualized problem (“health”, “professional health”) in the context of philosophicalsociological, medical-biological, psychological-pedagogical discourses is carried out. The specifics of professional and pedagogical activity of an educator of a higher educational institution are determined. The consequences that reduce the effectiveness of his/her professional duties are outlined. Theoretical conclusions on the content characteristics of the professional health of the HEI educator are summarized. From the standpoint of multicomponent health characteristics, the author’s interpretation of professional health of the educators of higher educational institutions as a complex characteristic of health in specific conditions of professional activity characterized by adaptation to the influence of professional environment, which is provided with sufficient functional reserves of the organism, manifested through the state of physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and focused on the organization of the healthcare process of higher education. The perspective directions of investigating the problem of healthcare of HEI educators are given.