title: [Comparison of physical growth in school-children living in children's residential facilities and in families with emphasis on the gypsy ethnic group].
abstract: The authors investigated the growth of 1208 gipsy and non-gipsy children living with their families and in childrens homes. They revealed that gipsy children from childrens homes were shorter, lighter and had a smaller chest circumference as compared with gipsy children living with their families. This applied only to younger school children. Somatic development caught up in boys at the age of 11-12 years and in girls approximately 1-2 years sooner. The values of the body mass index in boys declined with age. In girls this decline was found only up to the age of 11 to 12 years. Non-gipsy children from childrens homes were smaller than non-gipsy children according to Slovak standards (Lipková et al.; 5); this was particularly marked in boys. The authors found also that the somatic development of gipsy children from childrens homes oscillates between the somatic development of non-gipsy children according to the Slovak standards and the somatic development of gipsy children from families but only during later school age.
authors.affiliation: Katedra antropológie a zoológie, Prírodovedecká fakulta, UPJS, Kosice.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Biros
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bernasovský
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stollárová
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bernasovská
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jurícková
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012112:Residential Facilities; D006178:Romani People
vernacular_title: Porovnanie telesného rastu skolských detí z detských domovov a rodín so zameraním na rómske etnikum.