Nowadays in Ukraine the most important are complicated social conditions of life of society, emotional overload, negative physical activity of individuals, lack of proper physical education, development of the health culture. This result in non-compliance with a healthy lifestyle, negative forms of life, these factors do not allow society to realize its main functions. Taking into account the problem situation in the state policy of physical education in modern socio-economic conditions, this policy does not correspond to the current needs of Ukrainian society. The activity of non-state institutions in sphere of physical education should be higher and state policy in this direction should be more coordinated with the activities of civil society.
The result of physical education ought to be the formation of a personality, which has the ideals of equality, self-esteem, an ability to understand the problems of society. The role of public authorities in the development of physical culture and mass sport should be aimed at the effective implementation of this priority direction of the state socio-humanitarian policy. This fact requires to improve procedure of physical education in Ukrainian society as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon. The formation and development of physical culture in society is carried out primarily through individual consciousness, because the physical education of person is one of the components of public health. The important formation and implementation of state policy in this sphere, creation of a healthy lifestyle infrastructure of physical culture and health objects, processes of activating public activity in order to preserve own health.
Modern challenges require the improvement of the organization of the activities of state and social sport organizations and sport federations, rely on the peculiarities of the subjects of the state policy of physical education. Therefore, in the National strategy for the improvement of motor activity in Ukraine for the period up to 2025 «Motor activity – a healthy lifestyle – a healthy nation», the state policy of physical education has been substantiated. The state and public institutions should create conditions for engaging the general population in physical education and mass sport.
Mass sport should have a socio-cultural impact on the development of society, approaches to the physical culture of society should be improved, a new vision of a system of state policy of physical education is needed. The existing forms of realization of the state policy in sphere of physical education and sport and health care practice in order to establish actual state of the level of individual health of the population of Ukraine are analyzed. Basic principles of healthy lifestyle in the society for substantiation system of formation of the modern state policy of physical education of citizens for the purpose of public health and well-being is characterized.
Peculiarities of the activities of a wide range of public institutions for popularizing and promoting physical education among the population through the involvement of citizens in physical culture and sports movement are summarized. The formation and implementation of physical education in Ukrainian society is a part of the state socio-humanitarian policy, therefore, it is important to create conditions that will provide citizens with the possibility of physical improvement. It is necessary to determine the interaction of the system of mass sport with other types of activities in society and form the mechanisms of state policy of participation the social institutions in physical education and provide the authorities with recommendations for activities in this sphere.
Consequently, in dissertation research is important substantiation of the theoretical foundations of the state strategy of a healthy lifestyle in Ukrainian society by introducing mechanisms for the formation and implementation of the state policy of physical education on the basis of the scientific principles of valeology as a result of activation of function public organizations and associations of sports-recreation in Ukraine through the provision of practical recommendations for public authorities in cooperation with physical culture and sports organizations on social development and material provision of recreational infrastructure and offer an effective set of mechanisms for implementation the state policy of physical education with the active participation of public institutions in saving and improving the level of individual and public health.
Key words: state policy, mass sports, public institutions, mechanisms of public administration, physical education, society, active participation, physical culture, sports federations.
