title: [MODERN VIEW ON CHILDREN'S BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT].
abstract: The present review is devoted to the modern analysis of understanding of biological development, as a health index. There are considered works about tendencies of biological development of the child's organism in the conditions of environment, training and education. There are presented results of the study of indices of biological age of children's and teenagers' residing in various regions of the Russian Federation, and also in the near-abroad and far-abroad countries. The scientific materials devoted to the study of the biological development of the children's population were analyzed in the context of epochal variability. Modern approaches to the identification of the causes and risk factors for the formation of deviations in biological development of children and teenagers are presented.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Yatsenko
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Trankovskaya
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development / Q000502:physiology*; D000886:Anthropometry; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology