[On the Methodology of Studying Organizational Technologies of Health Preservation]

The article considers methodological studying of problematics of health preservation and its organizational technologies. The health preservation is considered in the context of public health policy. The necessity of complex interdisciplinary and longitudinal approach to studying this problematic is substantiated. The results of analysis of semantics of key concepts of health preservation are presented. The patient-centralized principles of activities and communication as applied to health preservation are substantiated. The differentiation between concepts of "value" and "utility" of organizational technologies of health preservation for health are discussed. The possible areas of studying positioning of health preservation in the system of personality values, including health culture, are proposed. The possible structuration of factors determining health condition and healthy life-style are proved. The scope of principles and approaches for subsequent elaboration of methods, standards, instruments and regulations of complex methodology of studying issues of health preservation and its organizational technologies are established.