HYGIENIC ASSESSMENT OF THE HEALTH STATE AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN UNDER COMBINED EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL FACTORS OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the state of health, morphometric and functional indicators of the physical development of preschool children living in conditions of the combined effect of chemical factors of industrial production. At present, negative trends in the health indicators of the child population, including chronic morbidity, persist [1, 2]. According to official data, the overall incidence of children under the age of 14 over the past decade has increased by 9.3%, and of 13.62 million schoolchildren, only 21.4% have the first health group, while 21% are diagnosed with chronic forms of somatic pathology. The level of health of modern first-graders is significantly lower than that of children at the end of the last century; only 4.3% of them are now recognized as absolutely healthy, against 8.7% at the end of the 90s [1, 6].