Assessing fitness for military enlistment : physical, medical, and mental health standards / Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment ; Paul R. Sackett and Anne S. Mavor, editors.

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.

ISBN: 9780309100793 (full book)
0309100798 (full book)
9780309655804 (pdfs)
0309655803 (pdfs)

Description: ix, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Soldiers Health and hygiene United States.
Youth Health and hygiene United States.
Manpower United States.
Military Personnel United States.
Physical Fitness United States.
Adolescent United States.
Psychology, Military United States.
United States Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Standards.
United States Armed Forces Medical examinations.

Contents: Procedures, Requirements, and Standards -- Framework for Evaluating Medical and Physical Standards -- Physical Fitness and Musculoskeletal Injury -- Medical Factors -- Mental Health -- Substance Abuse and Cigarette Use -- Conclusions and Recommendations.