[Hygiene of shaping up a healthy working generation under the conditions of today]

Prerequisites of shaping up the health condition, including health status, life mode and conditions of occupational training, in teenagers receiving workers' skills at basic-stage professional training facilities are under consideration. The specificity of adaptive responses and of health status is described in young females, mastering the jobs within the confectionary and public catering industry, during the professional training period, which is indicative of a higher sensitivity of teenagers' organisms towards the production factors' effects. Reliable trends towards aggravated indices of the health status in pupils of professional training facilities were registered during a 10-year observation period. A continued worsening of the life mode is noted in teenagers, which manifests itself mainly through a higher prevalence of smoking and frequent abuse of alcohol with the bad habits setting on at an earlier age. Labor occupation of pupils, when combined with professional training, is an extra risk factor in the building-up of health. Thus the obtained data witness to a worsening life mode of teenagers, who earn on the side, and to their worsening health status. Conclusions are made on a need to overcome the negative prerequisites related with shaping up the health condition of teenagers in the discussed social category.