ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF 7-17-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL STUDENTS

Studying the health status of children and adolescents includes a mandatory assessment of physical development, because physical development clearly reflects the influence of both internal factors and exogenous hygienic and social environmental factors on the body [25, 26,29]. The relationship between the effect of actual nutrition on physical development indicators shows that insufficient intake of basic nutrients, macro- and micronutrients relative to age norms is reflected in body length and weight indicators [12, 14, 31]. According to many literature data, every year the number of children with disharmonious variants of physical development due to excess body weight and underweight is growing [3].