History of student health research in Russia: sociological analysis

Abstract

This study is a retrospective analysis of the health of Russian students. It covers the period from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. In this study, scientific documents were analyzed. Historically, from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, researchers mainly investigated the physical development of students and their reproductive behavior. In the 40s to 50s and beginning of the 60s, the interest of scientists in social and hygienic research in the student environment was declining. The greatest number of scientific research on the problem of health protection of students fell from the 60s to 80s. In the 90s, the most important problem was the deterioration of the health of students due to the socio-economic crisis in the country and the fall in the standard of living of the population. A distinctive feature of research on the health of students of the twentieth century is their regional nature. The topic focused on the most urgent problems of the well-being of students.