Ailments - from a young age: relatively healthy generations are replaced by a sick

The results published in the publication "Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast" look very sad, especially if you extrapolate them to the rest of Russia.

It turned out that the generation of even relatively healthy people is becoming a thing of the past. Not only is Russia rapidly dying out, but a very sick generation is coming to replace the outgoing. The Tolkovatel blog provides some figures from this study:

- The incidence of adolescents from 2005 to 2018 increased by 22%.

- The number of obese children increased by 47%, diabetes by 65%.

- The number of children 0-14 years old with malignant neoplasms increased by 71% over 10 years (from 2008 to 2018), the number of adolescents with such diagnoses during the same period increased by 37%.

- Among the topical health problems of the child population should also be attributed to high child disability. During the indicated period, the absolute indicator has grown by 1.2 times, and the relative indicator of disability among the child population of Russia by 1.08 times. In 2019, these values were 670 thousand people (in Russia) and 222 people per 1000 children, respectively.

- According to the results of a sociological study of the health of schoolchildren in the cities of Vologda and Cherepovets, the share of completely healthy children was only 11.5%. Among 11th grade pupils, only 1% had very good health according to medical records.

- The most common diseases among schoolchildren by the time they graduated from high school (grade 11) were diseases of the musculoskeletal system (60% of children), cardiovascular system (37%), visual organs (34%), nervous system (33%), respiratory system (15%), digestive system (14% of children).