The unfavourable trends are associated with a deficit of nighttime sleep, excessive length of selfinstruction, low motion activity, eating disorders. To date, health problems have become even worse due to the reduction in the number of free places in the admission to universities, the decrease of the scholarship amount and the need to combine study with work. The greatest difficulties in this connection are experienced by non-resident students. Special care must be taken of students from single-parent families, since scientists and pediatricians studying their state of health conclude that they are much more susceptible to acute and chronic diseases (Agadzhanyan, Degtyarev & Rusanova, 1997).