Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universiteto pirmo kurso studentų sveikatos įvertinimas

Abstract

Inquiry into healthy or less healthy students and health changes exhibited by them over a number of academic years has not been fully accomplished. So, it is urgent to study the distribution of freshmen by health condition and health changes over several years. In order to optimize physical training and avoid mistakes in the process of physical training, it is necessary to perform permanent supervision and analysis of health condition exhibited by academic youth. These measures may form the basis for improvement in the area of students’ physical stir–up. We have set ourselves the following aim – to analyze periodically the condition of health demonstrated by first–year students enrolled at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, and to carry out the comparative analysis of quantitative and qualitative findings. Data on the condition of health of freshmen (19–20 years) at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University was collected and generalized. Our inquiry showed that the condition of health of first–year students enrolled at VGTU in 2005–2007 was improving. More prominent tendencies for the improvement of health were found by comparing the 2005 and 2006 years. It was found that female students demonstrated poorer health than male students did in every academic year under investigation.