V knige rassmatrivayutsya osnovnye napravleniya obespecheniya zdorov'ya cheloveka (s prenatal'nogo razvitiya i rozhdeniya - do vzrosleniya i vkhozhdeniya v sotsial'nuyu zhizn'). Uchebnyy material predstavlen v forme postanovki nauchno-prakticheskikh problem i ikh resheniya na osnove kontseptsii vospitaniya zdorovoy lichnosti. Kniga napisana na osnove nauchnykh idey vydayushchikhsya rossiyskikh uchenykh: D.S.Likhacheva, po mysli kotorogo prioritetnoe polozhenie v obshchestve dolzhna zanimat' kul'tura, I.I.Brekhmana - osnovopolozhnika valeologii (sovremennoy nauki o zdorov'e) i P.V.Simonova - avtora printsipial'no novoy kontseptsii vospitaniya. Soderzhanie knigi obogashcheno stsenami iz nauchno-khudozhestvennoy povesti zamechatel'nogo pisatelya M.M.Zoshchenko Pered voskhodom solntsa, v kotoroy on issleduet vozmozhnosti cheloveka sovershenstvovat' svoe nravstvenno-psikhicheskoe i somaticheskoe zdorov'e. Kniga prednaznachena dlya studentov, uchiteley, vrachey, roditeley - vsekh, kogo interesuyut voprosy zdorovoy zhiznedeyatel'nosti.