Physical development of teenagers remaining without parental care

Preserving and strengthening the health of orphaned children and children left without parental care is of great medical, social and public significance. The aim of the study. Assess the health status of adolescents without parental care. Material and methods. The object of the study was teenagers left without parental care (adolescents from 10 to 18 years old). The total sample size was 2,499 adolescents. Assessment of physical development was carried out on the hardware-software complex "Health-Express". This high-tech equipment, developed by the "Kazakh-Russian Medical University". Results and discussion. The authors have shown that at the present stage, there are negative trends in the number of children with disharmonious physical development due to lack of body length. For example, the frequency of identified disharmonious physical development in the age group 10-14 years was 71.8% and in the first childhood group 28.2%. The main reason for disharmonious physical development was a growth deficiency and moderate body weight deficiency. Conclusions. The main reason for the disharmonious physical development of adolescents left without parental care was a deficit in height and a moderate deficit in body weight. Keywords: physical development, teenagers, orphans, "Health-Express", body mass index, body length.