Health Promotion Department

The Health Promotion Department was established in 2026 based on three laboratories: the Laboratory of Social Determinants of Population Health, the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Medical Informatics, and the Laboratory of Security Strategies.

Head – Doctor of Medical Sciences Svitlana Hozak, (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6379-7331).

Tel.: +38(044)292-06-19; e-mail: school_health@meta.ua, s.hozak@health.gov.ua

Main Areas of Scientific Activity of the Health Promotion Department:

Research into the processes of forming, maintaining, and strengthening public health, taking into account social, behavioral, environmental, and biological determinants.
Development, implementation, and evaluation of the effectiveness of health promotion programs and strategies at various levels.
Creation and improvement of systems for social and public health monitoring and dynamic observation of the population’s health status, as well as forecasting changes in health status under the influence of environmental factors.
Determining the health status of various population groups (particularly children and youth) and assessing the body’s adaptive capabilities. Researching social inequalities in health and developing approaches to reduce them.
Developing criteria, screening methods, and tools for assessing human health, functional status, and adaptive potential.
Analysis of biopsychosocial factors shaping health-promoting and health-damaging behaviors, as well as the population’s environmental awareness.
Development and implementation of innovative health-promoting technologies, taking into account age, gender, psychophysiological characteristics, and risk factors.
Research on the quality of medical care, identification of the causes of deficiencies, and development of methodologies for their prevention, taking into account international experience.
Assessment of health risks associated with the impact of environmental factors, emergencies, and social transformations, and the development of preventive strategies.
Development of modern information, digital, and mathematical technologies for use in hygiene and medical-social research.
Mathematical modeling of adaptive responses of biological systems at various levels to the impact of adverse environmental factors.
Scientific support for the development of the public health system amid socio-economic changes.

The most significant scientific achievements of the Health Promotion Department:

Patterns of adaptation and health development among students of various age groups during the period of educational modernization in Ukraine, under different forms of instruction and physical education, have been identified.
Criteria for ensuring the hygienic well-being of children with various health impairments—students at special general-education boarding schools—have been substantiated.
Criteria for evaluating physical education curricula for students have been developed.
A program for the prevention and correction of musculoskeletal disorders in children of senior preschool and school age, titled “Beautiful Posture for Children,” has been developed, and its effectiveness has been established.
Conceptual approaches to the hygienic principles of physical education for children in educational institutions have been developed.
Criteria for the academic workload of children and adolescents in grades 1–11 in general secondary education institutions have been developed.
Criteria for levels of health-promoting physical activity among children and adolescents have been developed, both under normal living conditions and during humanitarian emergencies, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic.
The specific features of children’s and adolescents’ adaptation and readaptation to quarantine measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have been identified.
A computer program has been developed to predict children’s health, taking into account a complex of morpho-functional and behavioral determinants.
A conceptual model of medical-ecological monitoring titled “Environment—Public Health” has been developed.
Scales for predicting the likelihood of health disorders in children have been scientifically validated.
An algorithm for assessing the health status of generally healthy children has been proposed.
Hygienic principles for a system of dynamic monitoring of the health status of the pediatric population have been formulated.
Methods for determining the integrated characteristics of research objects have been developed.
A universal mathematical model of changes in a biosystem under the influence of acting factors, taking into account their intensity and duration of action, has been created.
Participation in the preparation of the draft Military Medical Doctrine of Ukraine.