Influence of the family's health and social characteristics on the child's health performance

In modern Russia, the family is the fundamental basis of society. The health of the child population is affected by a number of factors, among which leading factors are lifestyle factors. Excessive workload in educational institutions, poor quality and imbalance in nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, consumption of alcoholic beverages, tobacco smoking and many other factors create a risk to the health of the child population and lead to an increase in the incidence of children in the Russian Federation. In order to study the influence of the medical and social characteristics of the family in which the child is brought up, anonymous questioning of 106 schoolchildren of grades 7-11 living in rural areas was conducted on the self-assessment of his health. In the study, which was conducted using the main massif method, it was found that the composition of the family, financial situation and the number of children in the family affect the evaluation of children’s health status. The higher the proportion of complete families and the better financial situation, the higher the self-esteem of children’s health status. In most cases, children from families where one or two children have a worse health rating than children from large families.