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In the pedagogical knowledge in the system of preschool education since the end of the XX century, a new direction, the health-improvement pedagogy, has been developed. The author’s studies on the subject indicate that this direction of pedagogy can also be successfully developed as applied to higher levels of education-upbringing process. The author proves that the health-improvement pedagogy can provide effective results in relation to the school and higher education. At these levels of education, it promotes a number of important educational-upbringing processes: first, the formation of civil, moral-spiritual, artistic-aesthetic qualities of the personality of students; secondly, the formation, strengthening and building the potential of health of pupils and students in the process of increasingly higher level of mastering physical culture, gaining a healthy lifestyle; thirdly, the development of health-creating outlook, including deep understanding of the importance of psycho-spiritual and bodily health of the human being, which is especially important at the stages of personality formation. On the theoretical-methodological level, the health-improvement pedagogy is directly related to the philosophical-scientific and general pedagogical knowledge: philosophy of education, philosophy of health, philosophy, optimology, the theory of a healthy lifestyle. In practical terms, the health-improvement pedagogy becomes a methodological, didactic and methodological tool for the formation of important human qualities in school education and professional qualities of the person in higher education. In the article, the mechanisms are revealed of formation of professional-moral qualities of the secular and religious student youth by means of physical training on the basis of the health-improvement pedagogy.