ANTHROPOMETRICAL INDEXES OF PUPILS OF RURAL MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN ULYANOVSK REGION

Physical development is one of objective indicators of a state of health of the population that changes now very sharply, as well as other indicators (diseases, death rate, infantile death rate, average life expectancy, etc.). Methods of the statistical accounting and analysis of the data about physical development of the population have received a deep scientific substantiation and are widely used in practical research activity of establishments of public health services. As a result of research the assessment of anthropometrical indicators of schoolboys of rural municipal unions of the Ulyanovsk region is made. Researches were made in the territory of the Ulyanovsk region from 2008 till 2011. Eight areas with different quality of social and ecological factors of environment have been chosen for the research. Among schoolboys of the senior and average age group schoolboys from only two areas have harmonious development.