Abstract:

The article presents the historical material about the origin of the concepts of healthy lifestyle in the developed civilizations of the Ancient world and the Slavic nations. It is hypothesized that the idea of maintaining health, able-bodied life in general, always in close contact with the topics of quality of food, physical endurance, the benefits of full sleep, touched on personal hygiene, sexual life, isolation of patients, burial of the dead, etc. Already in prehistoric times there were clear and conscious ideas about many conditions that are harmful or beneficial to human health. A similar feature of the awareness of the value of health, its own impact on the preservation of health in classical civilizations of Antiquity was a clearly expressed social character. Health, health care were the property of the ruling class. About public health in prehistoric times has not been thought.

Keywords: health, ancient civilizations, Slavic ethnos, methods and forms of healthy lifestyle in ancient times, social coloring of health.