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Prof. Dr. Walery Zukow

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Department Physical Culture, Faculty Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Str. Lwowska 1, Toruń, 87-100 Poland
Interests: education; physical education; health; medicine; biology

Prof. Dr. Anatoliy I. Gozhenko

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Director of State Enterprise Ukrainian Research Institute for Medicine of Transport of Ukrainian Ministry of Health Care, 65039 Odesa, Ukraine
Interests: education; physical education; health; medicine; biology

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Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue aims to reveal the essence of the notion of a “healthcare environment of a higher education establishment” as an individual’s environment where interconnected healthcare factors and conditions contributing to the social, spiritual, physical, and mental development of the personality of the future teacher operate. Here, the components of health are a prerequisite for the creation of a health-preserving environment that should ensure not only the preservation and strengthening of health, but also the formation of the health culture of the future specialist. The objective of this research is to uncover the process of creating a healthcare environment in the institution of higher education and its impact on the healthcare activities of future teachers.

The Special Issue will feature research papers, reviews of research studies, technical reports, and conceptual pieces. The aim of the Special Issue is to conceptualize and bring attention to the creation of healthcare environment in an institution of higher education, which is a process that requires a clear awareness by all subjects of the educational process concerning the importance of a responsible attitude towards their own health. Prospects for further research involve further study of the theory and practice of a future teacher’s personality development in the healthcare environment of an institution of higher education.

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Assessment of Dietary Habits, Physical Activity and Lifestyle in Medical University Students

by Lavinia-Maria Pop, Magdalena Iorga, Iulia-Diana Muraru and Florin-Dumitru Petrariu

Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3572; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063572 - 23 Mar 2021

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A busy schedule and demanding tasks challenge medical students to adjust their lifestyle and dietary habits. The aim of this study was to identify dietary habits and health-related behaviours among students. A number of 403 students (80.40% female, aged M = 21.21 ± 4.56) enrolled in a medical university provided answers to a questionnaire constructed especially for this research, which was divided into three parts: the first part collected socio-demographic, anthropometric, and medical data; the second part inquired about dietary habits, lifestyle, sleep, physical activity, water intake, and use of alcohol and cigarettes; and the third part collected information about nutrition-related data and the consumption of fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, fish, and sweets. Data were analysed using SPSS v24. Students usually slept M = 6.71 ± 1.52 h/day, and one-third had self-imposed diet restrictions to control their weight. For both genders, the most important meal was lunch, and one-third of students had breakfast each morning. On average, the students consumed 1.64 ± 0.88 l of water per day and had 220 min of physical activity per week. Data about the consumption of fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, fish, sweets, fast food, coffee, tea, alcohol, or carbohydrate drinks were presented. The results of our study proved that medical students have knowledge about how to maintain a healthy life and they practice it, which is important for their subsequent professional life. Full article

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Trajectories of Victimization and Bullying at University: Prevention for a Healthy and Sustainable Educational Environment

by José Gómez-Galán, Cristina Lázaro-Pérez and José Ángel Martínez-López

Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3426; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063426 - 19 Mar 2021

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The bullying phenomenon is both an uncomfortable reality and a serious social problem for educational community institutions. Its presence is incompatible with a healthy and sustainable education environment. The educational, psychological, and social consequences of bullying transcend the personal sphere and reach the family and work environment in adulthood. Traditionally, bullying has been studied in the compulsory educational stages. However, at present, this problem is also being addressed in higher education. The present research, which is of a transversal nature, aims to explore bullying in the Spanish university setting, along with its typology, scope, and predictive factors, from both socio-demographic and family perspectives. In this sense, we set ourselves the following objectives: (GO1) to see if university students are exposed to bullying, as well as to identify the profiles of the subjects of bullying from three dimensions (physical, relational, and verbal victimization) and (GO2) to determine whether there are trajectories of bullying in university students from the compulsory education stage to the present. Based on a descriptive quantitative methodology, this study was conducted in 10 Spanish universities. The research’s major results show that the persistence of bullying in university classrooms is of a relational and verbal nature, but is not physical. Victimization occurs mainly in women who carry out studies linked to social and legal sciences or art and the humanities. Additionally, it is observed that a spiral of relational violence is produced, perpetuating this type of aggression over time. Among other predictive factors in university students is that they have suffered relational violence during their compulsory education. These data should alert educational and health institutions about the persistence of bullying in university students to prevent it and to facilitate its early detection and treatment to eradicate this problem from higher education classrooms. Full article

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