The rapidly changing conditions of a modern unstable society change all spheres of human activity, including education. The increasing complexity of the educational process leads to an increase in the burden on higher education teachers. The implementation of pedagogical activities is accompanied by a number of difficulties, some of which are largely experienced by teachers, difficult to solve and become life difficulties. Life difficulties related to professional activity affect the state of health and worsen it. The work attempts to identify the relationship between the life difficulties of university teachers and the presence of chronic diseases.
Keywords: difficulty; education; health; life difficulties.