Impact of environmental factors on physical development and population health

Research of influence of adverse factors of the environment of life on physical development and population health is one of actual problems of modern ecology. The works devoted to features of physical development and epoch-making variability, or secular trend, are widely represented in many countries of the world. It is noted that universal tendencies of epoch-making variability of physical development have a different focus: from accelerated continuation to its stop. At constancy of genetic characteristics of an organism, climatologi-cal, geographical, social, economic and ecological conditions make considerable impact on phenotypical variability of a person, up to adjustment disorder and emergence of diseases. In the article natural, social and economic and ecological conditions of environment in the Republic of Mordovia are considered; the authors submit a statistics on influence of regional factors of the environment on physical development, health and constitutional features of population; actions for improvement of an ecological situation in the region are suggested.