ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS FORMATION AMONG STUDENTS AS RELEVANT AND GLOBAL PROBLEM OF THE PRESENT: UKRAINIAN AND POLISH EXPERIENCE.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: The purpose of the study is to develop a scientifically grounded methodology for the formation of ecological consciousness among students on the activity basis, taking into account the interdisciplinary approach in the process of extracurricular work. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The research was conducted during 2016-2021 on the basis of pedagogical faculty of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU, Ukraine) in several stages.At the theoretical and diagnostic stage, the state of problem development in the scientific literature was studied; international documents on environmental protection and sustainable development were studied; domestic pedagogical experience was analyzed and generalized; through interviews, questionnaires, observations, interviews a statement experiment was carried out, which resulted in initial data on the state of environmental knowledge of future professionals, study the results of students' acquisition of environmental knowledge in university, their attitude to environmental protection, willingness to improve their knowledge of nature. 200 students were involved in the experiment. Also, students from the Warsaw Medical University (WMU, Poland) were interviewed. RESULTS: Results: The ecological consciousness formation among future specialists has to be done on the activity basis. It should be a purposeful and completely voluntary process, taking into account the students' interests on interdisciplinary basis, using traditional methods (narration, conversation, lecture, etc.), but with an emphasis on the activity basis. Environmental education in higher education institutions should gain the status of a strategic large-scale and high priority course, with expanded and updated content, form and methods of training, which are based on the activity basis. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Forms and methods of ecologic and humanistic nature forming the ecological consciousness of a person create a model of positive moral and social behavior; forming such a behavior among students will ensure the nature preservation on planet Earth.

SANITARY AND HYGIENIC EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MEASUREMENT OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF PUBLIC MEDICINE OF GALICIA (END OF THE XIX - 30S OF THE XX CENTURY).

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To analyze the leading trends in sanitary and hygienic education of children and adults in Galicia during the late XIX - the 30s of the XX century and define opportunities to use this historical experience in the current context of the spread of COVID-19 virus in Ukraine. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: Chronological, historical, specific search, content-analysis- provide selection and analysis of the source base, allow to determine general trends, directions of development, achievements and gaps of sanitary and hygienic education of children and adults in Galicia in the late XIX - 30sof the XX century; extrapolation and actualization - focus on creative thinking, adaptation and use of this historical experience in today's conditions. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Under the current conditions of the COVID-19 spread, analysis of this retro experience projects to develop a scientific concept of health education, which would outline theoretical approaches to studying this problem, creating a comprehensive state program aimed at preventing infectious diseases, restoration of gene elaboration of clear recommendations on observance of sanitary and hygienic norms and conditions established by quarantine zones, carrying out anti-epidemic measures at educational institutions and among the adult population, informing about prevention and peculiarities of the COVID-19 disease spread, etc.