Assessment of health state is the most important role of a physician, who works with children and adolescents. It’s main importance lies in the fact, that the formation of physical and psychological human health, organism’s resistance to influence of unfavourable environmetnal factors and social contitions takes place in childhood.
The following criteria of complex assessment of the children and adolescents health state are used nowadays in everday practice of sanitary doctors, doctors of general education establishments, pediatricians, general practitioners and family doctors:
Presence or absence of chronical diseases during examination;
Functional state of main systems of organism;
Level of organism resistance to unfavourable influence of environemntal factors;
Current level of nervous and psychological, and physical development, its harmonicity.
According to listed above criteria, allocation scheme of children and adolescents by health groups was elaborated. There are 5 health groups:
First health group includes healthy children and adolescents with harmonious development and development level of organism functional systems corresponding to the age.
Second health group includes healthy children and adolescents who have functional and some morphological deviations, low resistance to acute and chroonic diseases, they are ill frequently during long period of time.
Third health group includes children and adolescents suffering from chronic diseases in compensation stage, with normal fucntional resources of organism.
Fourth health group includes children and adolescents suffering from chronic diseases in subcompensation stage with lowered funcional resources of organism.
Fifth health group includes children and adolescents suffering from chronic diseases in decompensation stage with significantelly lowered funcional resources of organism.