[Health status of children and adolescents in the main cotton growing region of Central Asia]. / Sostoianie zdorovía detei i podrostkov vedushchego khlopkovodcheskogo regiona Srednei Azii.

The paper outlines the health status of schoolchildren residing in a rural area of Uzbekistan. It also provides the results of an analysis of the pupils' morbidity rates by age, sex, pattern of chronic diseases and extent of their spread. The high proportion of nervous and mental diseases concurrent with headache is associated with chronic pesticide intoxication. It is concluded that there is a need of a wide range of health promotion measures, removal of some poor exogenous factors, and improvement of socioeconomic living conditions of the Uzbekistan's rural population.