The minimization of the impact of information and communication technologies on the health and well-being of children

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The strategic goal of the state policy in the field of information security of children is to ensure the harmonious development of the younger generation, to minimize risks associated with the formation of hyperinformative society. The hygienic safety of the life of children under the use of information technology is a necessary condition for their balanced growth, development and formation of health. Modern information technologies of training provide children easy access to information resources, remoteness, mobility, interactivity, the possibility of the formation of social and educational networks, and educational communities, modeling and animation of various processes and phenomena. The purpose of the study is the substantiation of the system of the sanitary safety of hyperinformation of children’s life activity. The analytical method has allowed justify a system of hygienic and medical-psychological-pedagogical safety of the life of children’s life activity in hyperinformational society. The system includes the criteria of hygienic safety for information and communication technologies (ICT) and their means of support; modern sanitary rules and regulations to ensure hygienic safety for the children of information and communication technologies of training in educational institutions; federal recommendations of care for students in conditions of modern information and communications technology of training and information of children’s life activity; federal guidelines for the preservation of mental and psychological health and well-being of students; recommendations for family in security of children’s life activity in hyperinformational space; recommendations for producers and content distributors of providing medical, psychological and educational safety of children’s life activity; game educational programs on rules of the safe use of the Internet by children; monitoring the effectiveness of hygienic safety and protection of children from negative information. The implementation of hygienic children’s safety system will allow provide the best personal mental and physical development, the preservation of mental and psychological health and well-being of children in hyperinformational society; achieve expected results of the Concept of information security of children approved by the Decree of the Russian Federation dated December 2, 2015 № 2471-r, in terms of creating a new media environment.

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Vladislav R. Kuchma

National Medical Research Center of Children’s Health; I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

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Email: kuchmavr@nczd.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1410-5546

MD, PhD, Dsci., Prof., corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director on science, Director of the Scientific Institute of Hygiene and Health Care for Children and Adolescents of the National Medical Research Center of Children’s Health, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation; Head of the Department of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents at the Pediatric Faculty of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation.

e-mail: kuchmavr@nczd.ru

Russian Federation

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