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Scientific Review. Biological science
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HEALTH RISK FACTORS TO ASSESS TEENAGERS’ LIFE STANDARD IN ECOLOGICAL HYGIENIC MONITORING (ON THE EXAMPLE OF BRYANSK REGION)

Kovaleva E.L. 1
1 Federal State-Funded Educational Institution of higher professional education «Bryansk State University named after I. G. Petrovsky»
Risk factors of teenagers’ health and their contribution to general life standard on the territory of Bryansk region were explored by the method of questionnaire. Teenagers are a social and age population group who are the most sensitive to the influence of outside stress factors because this age period is known for intensive physiological changes and active processes of growth and development. The author’s questionnaire included eight sections such as financial family standing, living conditions, parent’s education, nutrition, teenagers’ education and incidence of bad habits. The questionnaire provided for teenagers’ assessment of their well-being. 138 teenagers aged 15-17 living in the anthropogenically polluted area (the town of Novozybkov) and relatively clean zone (the town of Pochep) were questioned. Among main health risk factors of teenagers from Novozybkov bad habits prevail. The respondents from Pochep seem to suffer from such risk factors as low financial family standing and bad nutrition. According to the survey school environment, living conditions and parents’ education have little influence on teenagers’ well-being. Quite a low financial family standing did not have an impact on living standard.