Medicosocial problems of pupils’ health according to survey results

Aim. To reveal the regional features and causes of worsening of health among pupils using the results of survey.

Materials and methods. The method of questioning was used to study the prevalence of the factors, conditioned by the mode of life, educational process, informativity of pupils regarding the main risk factors, their loyality to healthy way of life. The study included 247 pupils of the 8–9 forms from 12 secondary schools of the city.

Results. The paper is devoted to the study of the causes of worsening of health among pupils, living in small cities of Russia. There is singled out and presented a group of unfavorable factors, conditioned by pupils’ way of life: malnutrition, intensive educational load, long use of computers and prevalence of bad habits, which negatively influence the development and health of the growing organism.

Conclusions. To preserve pupils’ health in modern conditions, it is necessary to optimize the conditions of training and way of life taking into account regional features. First of all, the manageable factors ought to be used, which do not need additional financial costs: observation of hygienic regime and nutrition at school and at home; improvement of internal environment, perfection of curriculum, health-improving measures, training of healthy way of life.