Study of medico-biological, medico-social and organizational factors influencing the morbidity of school-age children
Aim. The study of the incidence among school-age children, and development of a complex of medico-biological, medico-social and organizational measures for improving health status of schoolchildren. Methods. Statistical, mathematical, sociological. Results. Morbidity among children in Kazan in 2015-2017 increased to 20.4%, incidence during this period increased by 38.6%. The conducted examination of physical development of schoolchildren revealed significant decrease of the ratio of students with normal physical development. While in primary school this parameter was 85.3±2.17%, in grades 8 to 11 it decreased to 77.8±1.98% (p <0.01). The social and hygienic health characteristics of schoolchildren's health include the following: 25% of surveyed students live in families with a low subsistence level; 30% of schoolchildren are brought up in single-parent families; in 10% of cases parents do not allocate money for child nutrition at school; 30.5% of schoolchildren of grades 8 to 11 smoke; 35.9% of students of grades 8 to 11 drink alcohol; 34.9% of schoolchildren have conflicts with their classmates; 17.1% of schoolchildren of grades 8 to 11 do not eat hot meals at school; 28% of students consider themselves not informed about the issues of proper nutrition, etc. The conducted study of the schedule at schools demonstrated that the workload of the junior schoolchildren exceeds the age standards by 5-7 hours, and in the middle and senior classes the load turned out to be higher than the age standards by 5-10 hours. Conclusion. One-way ANOVA reflected that medico-biological, medico-social and organizational factors significantly influence the occurrence of diseases in school-age children; based on the data on the influence of unfavorable risk factors on the development of diseases in school-age children we will develop measures for medical and social prevention.