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OBJECTIVE: The aim: Investigate the health-saving direction of the content of academic disciplines and pedagogical practice in the educational programs of the 1st (bachelor's) educational level of specialties 012 Preschool education and 013 Primary education. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: A set of methods were used in the paper: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization, generalization), empirical (observation, interviews, questionnaires) to form and understand the values of public health in the student community. RESULTS: Results and conclusions: The development of public health in the student community is seen as an understanding of the value of their own health and mastery of healthsaving technologies for their use in the future teaching profession. Theoretical understanding and the results of practical work with students of the 1st (bachelor's) educational level of specialties 012 Preschool education and 013 Primary education made it possible to determine the nature and content of the development of public health elements during student life of higher education students and the near future professional activity of preschool and primary school teachers.
