The state of physical and mental health of students at the initial stage of their studies at the university

Introduction. The article is devoted to one of the topical problems of pedagogical psychology to study the health of students at the initial stage of education at the pedagogical university. The original methodological principle of scientific reflection is the principle of the wholeness of B. Spinoza in accordance with which physicality and psyche appear as a vital unity of the whole person. Within this integrity, an attempt has been made to analyse holistic health on the physical, mental and personal levels as a fragment of the successive states of the successive states of the person's continuous movement from situational adaptation to external conditions, to supraitual psychological adaptation, to the psychological adaptation of the individual to external conditions, contributing to personal growth, to psychological adaptation to the conditions created by the individual to satisfy its need for self-actualization of genetically embedded and acquired potentials. Materials and Methods. The following methods were used for the preparation of this article; theoretical analysis of Russian and international literature, study of scientific articles and publications on the topic, overview of results from Russian and international studies; psychological experiment. Results. The results of the study are the basis for the development of adaptive-developing models of the educational and professional activities of first-year students including spatial, substantive, sanitary and socio-psychological conditions, which act as resources of professional and personal development and recovery of students. Discussion and Conclusions . The article pays special attention to the description of the health of freshmen, which are manifested: at the physical level in the presence of students diseases of cardiovascular, visual, digestive, excretion, endocrine systems of the body, disharmonization of physical development and low integral indicators of physical health; at the mental and psychological levels, in the presence of young men and women nonpathological and pathological neuro-mental de-adaptation to educational and professional activities, in the predominance of moderate and high situational and personal anxiety, in the susceptibility of depression and anxiety, relatively low health indicators at the behavioral level with relatively high rates of value-motivational level and health awareness and health and health.