Comparative characteristics of changes within somatotype components of young people (rural and city residents) during stud ying in a higher educational institution

Abstract

Relevance of the research topic. The constant trend towards reforms in the spheres of health care, education, and sanitary-epidemic service leads to changes in the control over the conditions of obtaining education from a medical point of view, and also confirms the urgency of finding solutions to improve the conditions of education in aim to preserve the health of those receiving education. In our opinion, control and observation of changes in physical development makes it possible to solve some urgent needs. Determination of the type of constitution, and especially somatotypological signs, is of actual practical and theoretical importance. The somatotypological characteristic of the human body is a biological portrait of a person that integrates and a set of hereditary somatic characteristics, as well as the influence of socio-economic and environmental factors.