[Hygienic assessment of organization of an educational process in the general education establishments of a large town].

The mental health status of a rising generation is a necessary condition for acquiring professional knowledge and work skills and socializing the personality. In the opinion of many investigators, schoolchildren's mental health maintenance depends on the correct organization of a teaching process and on the observance of the hygienic academic work standards to a large measure. The assessment of organization of a teaching process at different types of urban general educational establishments has revealed a number of failures to observe the sanitary-and-epidemiological regulations and standards of SanPin 2.

[Main trends in the physical development of young children].

The physical development ofjunior schoolchildren living in Ufa, a large industrial town, was studied. The findings were compared with the data of the 1946-1947, 1972, and 1998 studies of physical development. Analysis of the materials indicated that the accelerating processes among young children continued till the end of the previous century, the maximum change in anthropometric indices being observed in the period of 1947 to 1972.