Lecture February 13,1989
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           Address
          BY
    C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD
      Surgeon General
           Of the
     U.S. Public Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Presented to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
        Washington, DC
        February 181989

This lecture is included in the archive largely to make the user aware of the fact that there
is such a thing as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces formerly called the War
College, and that an address given to that College will have repercussions throughout the
all of the Armed Forces and especially at the interface of the Armed Forces with the
civilian population in the jobs that the military does so well relying on both uniformed
and non-uniformed personnel to get the job done.

Such a lecture is also an opportunity that in an archive like this, referring to something
like the Public Health Service, has to be repeated at least every year so that the user has
an update on the situation in reference to health promotion, disease prevention, the
surveillance of disease, the statistics of infectious disease, and the predictions for what
might be due in the coming several years.

A tremendous amount of material is covered in this lecture and I will not attempt to
summarize it here. This lecture is directed to the concerns we all have about the health of
young people in our society.

Abusive drugs
AIDS
Advice to the military services
Assessing the health of young people
Basic guidelines to avoid HIV
Discouraging examples of the 1985 survey
Education in the promotion of health and prevention

    of disease
Endurance
Fitness ethic in American society
General health of America's young people
Heart activity
High-risk behavior of young people

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High-risk sexual behavior of young people
Lack of change in fitness surveys
Lack of coordination
Lung capacity
Muscle strength
Overweight
Physical, emotional and intellectual growth
    processes

Physical fitness as an index of good health
President's Council of Fitness and Sports
Rejections rates of draftees and enlistees in World

War II

Role of the military in civilian fitness
Sexually transmitted disease
Specific diseases of young people
Survey of Physical Fitness-1985 (6-l 7)
Vaccine development and the health of young

people

President Eisenhower

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