Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Gomel State Medical University, Byelorusia
Melnik Viktor A., Ph.D., assoc. prof., e-mail: melnik76@tut.by; Kozakevich N.V.
The aim of the research is to assess the dynamics of basic anthropometric parameters of schoolchildren of Byelorusian Polesye in the period from 1976 to 2011. The authors of the article have examined the schoolchildren of secondary schools in the city of Gomel. In 2010–2011 the complex diametrical morphometrical examination was carried out on the schoolchildren aged 7–17 without significant health problems in the city of Gomel (total 2894, of them 1411 were boys and 1483 were girls) The anthropometric observation of the schoolchildren was conducted by the unified method of V.V. Bunak in accordance with a program traditionally used by the anthropologists of Russia and Belarus. The somatometrical program included body length and mass, chest circumference parameters. The absolute and relative parameters of their annual increases were calculated of the schoolchildren, which made it possible to determine the periods of their relative acceleration and deceleration indices. The anthropometric data on the schoolchildren of Byelorusian Polesye obtained by G.I. Verenits in 1976–1978 were used for comparison. As a result of the conducted comparative analysis of the basic anthropometric parameters of physical development of the schoolchildren of Byelorusian Polesye, examined in 1976–2011, it was established that nowadays boys exceed their peers examined in 1976 in body length and mass, chest circumference parameters. Girls aged 7–17 observed such as regularity only for body length parameter and for body mass for the age of 7–14 and chest for 7–13. The periods of maximum average annual increases of the basic anthropometric parameters of the boys examined in 1976 and 2011 fell on the later terms in comparison with the peer girls. The maximum increase in length and body mass parameters examined in 2011 was recorded a year earlier than that of the boys examined in 1976. Nowadays the girls in Byelorusian Polesye observe their maximum body length increase a year later and body mass and chest circumference increases three and two years earlier, correspondingly.
auxology, anthropometric parameters, physical development, children and adolescents, dynamics
Цит.: Melnik V.A., Kozakevich N.V. Dynamics of basic anthropometric parameters of schoolchildren of Byelorusian Polesye in the period from 1976 to 2011 // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 1/2014; с. 90-95
Download text