[Functional fitness of a child for schooling: retrospective and actuality].

Physiological systems and functions in children are known to develop unevenly (heterochronously). For this reason many of them enter school functionally immature, i.e.

[Hygienic aspects of physical development and reproductive health in schoolgirls].

This paper is based on the results of medical examination (single-step and longitudinal) of more than 10,000 schoolgirls and students aged 8-17 and 17-23 years respectively undertaken in Moscow in 1960-2004 and on the archival data (6500 medical cards of primipara women) from maternity hospitals dated to 1981-1990. It was shown that a main feature of growth and development of the female organism in the recent years was gracialization of the girls' stature due to reduced transverse and circumferential body measures including diameter of pelvis. This finding implies a risk of reproductive health impairment with time.

[Hygiene of contemporary preschool education].

The case study deals with the health status of children at preschool educational facilities as observed in the 80-ies of the last century and early in the new century; besides, an elaboration of hygienic regulations applicable to the training-and-education effects produced on organisms of contemporary trainees of such facilities for as long as 3 to 7 years with due respect to the education modernization campaign (now underway in the country) is in the focus of attention.

[Hygienic advantages of teaching girls of same sex schools].

The paper comparatively analyzes the impact of teaching on the health and functional parameters of girls in the same sex classes. The hygienic and educational advantages of girls' separate schooling at primary and secondary stages are substantiated. The right to separate schooling of girls is recognized as one of its variations, which realizes a gender line in pedagogy and lowers the unfavourable impact of schooling on girls' health.

[Substantiation of optimal education-training load for preschool children 3-4 years of age].

The study was undertaken to make a sanitary regulation of educational and training load in junior and middle group preschool children of general children's educational institutions (CEIs). Experts' assessment was chosen to study the impact of regular educational and training load on the child's functional status. The experts were tutors and methodologists of CEIs (n = 186).