[The health-promoting tendency of systematic swimming exercises in preschool institutions]. / Ozdorovitel'naia napravlennost' sistematicheskikh zaniatii plavaniem v doshkol'nykh uchrezhdeniiakh. 1

Systematic swimming exercises in child preschool establishments increase toughening of children, resistance to unfavourable factors, and also favourably influence anthropometric indices. Besides, collective health indicators in such groups (health index, specific weight of children who get ill frequently, the presence of the antigen protective titre, mean duration of one case of a disease) were reliably better.