The Health Care of Athletes of Higher Achievements as a Factor of Professional Stability: a Sociological Analysis
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.95.2.010
Abstract
The problem of professional stability of athletes of higher achievements is considered through the prism of the concept of health saving, which is of interest to a greater extent among specialists in the field of medical research in the field of sports, which prompted the author to a sociological analysis of the problem of maintaining the health of athletes of higher achievements. Based on the theoretical approaches to the study of health M. Lalonde and N. A. Lebedeva- Nesevrya, a sociological study «Professional longevity of high-performance athletes» was carried out with the use of questionnaire survey of athletes (n=400 people; sampling was carried out by the «snowball» method) at the Department of General Sociology and Social Work of NNGU named after N. I. Lobachevsky in 2023–2024 in order to assess health saving as a factor of professional stability of high-performance athletes. As a result, the following were revealed: the riskiness of sports activity, the state of health of athletes, the typology of common diseases, the problems of realization of the concept of health saving of athletes in the Russian Federation, the most demanded specialists in the process of athlete functioning in the subfield of high-performance sports and beyond. Based on the personal practical experience of athletes, it is concluded that health is the most scarce resource in the process of realization in the subfield of high-performance sports due to the high level of injuries, chronic diseases, and disability. In the post-sport stage the occurrence of diseases caused by labor activity in the sport of highest achievements does not decrease, which actualizes the problem of the demand for medical and social support of current athletes, as well as those who have completed their sports career. Increasing the level of effectiveness of rehabilitation services for athletes just rising to the Olympus of glory (candidates for master of sports) is important for preserving the integrity of the professional community of high-performance athletes, which reflects the novelty of the study.
About the Author
A. V. Ermilova
N. I. Lobachevsky National Research University of Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ermilova Anna Vyacheslavovna — Candidate of Sociology Sciences, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor of the Department of General Sociology and Social Work at FSN
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Ermilova A.V. The Health Care of Athletes of Higher Achievements as a Factor of Professional Stability: a Sociological Analysis. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(2(95)):99-106. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.95.2.010
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