Investigating socio-ecological factors of migration and climate change on schoolchildren’s health and adaptation in vulnerable regions

¹ Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service, 390000 Ryazan, Russia
² Ryazan State University named after S. A. Yesenin, 390000 Ryazan, Russia
³ Research Centre, The Federal State Institution “Research Institute of the of the Federal penitentiary service of Russia”, 125130 Moscow, Russia
⁴ Yelets State University named after I. A. Bunin, 399770 Yelets, Russia
⁵ National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N. I. Lobachevsky, Arzamas branch, 607220 Arzamas, Russia

^* Corresponding author: bashkireva32@gmail.com

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most pressing global problems of our time. The impact of climate change on the physical development of students as a factor in adaptation to the educational process has not been sufficiently studied. The paper presents data on the physical development of adolescent schoolchildren of the Kazakh and Slavic ethnic groups in the context of migration and climate marginalization. The results of the study showed that all subjects had harmonious physical development. The measurements of length, weight, body mass index, and weight-height index show that individuals can vary significantly. The dynamics of the indicators of length and body weight in boys and girls are the same, but in boys, they are significantly higher than in girls. Studies have found asthenia in both indigenous and immigrant schoolchildren. Constitutional ethnic features of the physical development of schoolchildren in migration and climate change revealed.