Blizorukost' - sotsial'naya problema meditsiny. Eto naibolee chastyy defekt zreniya. Sistemnye endokrinnye i metabolicheskie faktory vozdeystvuyut na refraktogenez u detey. Stat'i, privedennye v knige, posvyashcheny opredeleniyu ekstraokulyarnykh prichin geneza i progressirovaniya miopii. Razrabotany mery po profilaktike i vedeniyu priobretennoy blizorukosti. Patogeneticheski obosnovannaya kompleksnaya terapiya priostanavlivaet protsess miopizatsii. Adekvatnaya reabilitatsiya detey s miopiey i riskom razvitiya blizorukosti pozvolit uluchshit' ikh psikhologicheskuyu i sotsial'nuyu adaptatsiyu, rasshirit' professional'nyy vybor v budushchem. Sbornik statey, vklyuchayushchiy nauchno-prakticheskie issledovaniya po probleme etiopatogeneza miopii, predstavlyaet interes dlya oftal'mologov, pediatrov, vrachey obshchey praktiki, aspirantov i chitateley, kto interesuetsya voprosom mekhanizma vozniknoveniya blizorukosti u shkol'nikov.