Author(s)

Hongjun Teng, Zhenbo Bao, and Fan Yang

Corresponding Author

Zhenbo Bao

Abstract

The university teachers who struggle in the first-line are undertaking the arduous task of training high-level professional talents for the country and the dual responsibilities of teaching and scientific research. The health of university teachers is the basic guarantee to achieve the above goals. At present, due to the social and school environment, the professional characteristics of university teachers, as well as the university teachers themselves and other factors, university teachers' casualties caused by health problems occur from time to time, which brings irreparable losses to the country, schools and families. The health status of university teachers is not optimistic, so it is urgent to solve the health problems of university teachers. On the basis of analyzing the definition of health by the WHO, it is pointed out that there are some deficiencies in physical health and mental health of university teachers. The factors affecting the health of teachers in colleges and universities are summarized from the aspects of the environment, the professional characteristics of teachers and the teachers themselves. Finally, from the aspects of social environment, school environment and personal aspects of teachers, improvement measures to improve the health of university teachers are proposed.

Keywords

Colleges and universities; Health; First-line Teachers