HEALTH OF NEWBORNS: SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS
The risk of perinatal mortality and the number of children with a body weight up to 2500 gm decreased in Ukraine in the period of 2002-2012 yeare. In Kyiv region it was revealed a decrease in average value of mass, height and mass-height coefficient of the children who were bom at the beginning of XXI centrny compared with newboms of the 80-yeare of the XX centrny; in Zhytomyr region - reduced mass index and mass-height coefficient with increasing height. The similar changes were obse^ed among both boys and girts. The negative changes in terns of mass and height in the XXI centrny, comparing with the previous generation reduced adaptive characteristics of the cunent generation that might have further effect on the health of general population.