HYGIENE OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: PERSONALIZED AND POPULATION-BASED APPROACH TO SANITARY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF A YOUNG GENERATION IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Abstract

Today population-based and secondary preventions do not provide the desired results, the existing forms of these preventions do not work. Children, adolescents, and young people almost do not respond to them. The aims of the study are to substantiate the role and place of hygiene of children and adolescents in modern sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the child population. Expert-analytical, observational study was performed. Results. The strategy of scientific and technological development of individual and population-based hygiene of children and adolescents and school medicine has been presented. The strategy includes the population and personalized levels, which ensure the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the children's population, the building skills of a healthy lifestyle for children, adolescents and youth. The population level includes: conducting works on hygienic diagnostics; improvement of the organization and control of the activities; implementation of the control, conducting expert control and sanitary-epidemiological audit in educational organizations; analysis of the results of medical examinations and data concerning of infectious diseases; assessment of health risks associated with professional training; development and improvement of criteria for assessing the provision of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of students in educational organizations. It is necessary to calculate individual risks and predict their consequences for the child's health and develop the monitoring system for the prevention. The main investors in the development of hygiene of children and adolescents and school medicine are government and the business community. Conclusion. The current stage of socio-economic, scientific and technological development of Russia requires the use of the achievements and technologies of the population and personalized hygiene of children and adolescents. Further scientific and technological development of population-based and personal hygiene of children and adolescents requires appropriate resources.