Klaipėdos universitetas

With the popularisation of education in health care, the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, thereby strengthening all-round health, with physical, mental and emotional well-being, becomes more relevant. The aim of the article is to reveal the possibilities of education in a healthy lifestyle based on the point of view and experience of health-care specialists. The questionnaire survey of health-care specialists showed that the respondents have a positive attitude towards the need for the education of individuals in a healthy lifestyle, but they lack knowledge about strengthening personal health and education in a healthy lifestyle. Although the respondents’ approach to education in a healthy lifestyle is complex, their health behaviour may not always be a suitable example to others. Not only the functions of information and education, but also guidance, consulting and assistance are important to the interviewees, but they lack the skills of educational competence to perform them. In addition, health-care professionals lack sufficient knowledge and ability to apply educational methods, prepare tools, and use resources, and integrate education in a healthy lifestyle into health care.

In an age of scientific and technical innovation, with the rapid development of digital technologies, the promotion of physical activity among adults becomes relevant, as it is irreplaceably important to strengthen their overall health. The article reveals the attitude of health-care specialists to the importance of promoting physical activity in adults, needs, reasons for choice, conditioning factors, ways and means of promoting physical activity in adults, the possibilities for its increase and development, and the importance of the professionalism of health-care specialists in promoting physical activity in adults. The research confirmed the validity of theoretical approaches and empirical strategy from the point of view of health-care specialists, the importance of the promotion of physical activity for adults’ physical and mental health, a harmonious personality, quality of life, and social and economic well-being. Adults’ physical activity is determined by various mutually influencing factors, emphasising the possibilities of promoting physical activity for strengthening their health, empowering personal potential, focusing on the individuality of the person, applying andragogic access, learning from experience, etc.

The purpose of this article is to review the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 and 2021 on the business environment of the transport sector, and to provide the most effective means to restore the transport sector. For this purpose, scientific, statistical and documentary sources are examined, in which material from research conducted by Lithuanian and foreign scientists about the pandemic and its impact on the European and Lithuanian transport sector is analysed; the importance of the transport sector to the national economy and the peculiarities of the transport sector business environment are reviewed; the challenges of different modes of transport in the transport sector during the pandemic are described; threats, problems and opportunities the transport sector faced are presented; and impact assessments and forecasts for individual modes of transport are provided. To reveal the topic of the article about the challenges and changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the transport sector, a comparative analysis of the latest scientific literature and statistics, documents, descriptive analytical, synthesis and comparative analysis methods were used.