Childhood characteristics as indicators of adult health status.

Abstract

service qualifying examinations. The need to consider the whole range of information in school records, behavioral and scholastic as well as physical, and its relationship to draft status was made apparent by previous findings that more than one-fifth (21.3 percent) of the 29,000 young men undergoing preinduction examinations in New York City in 1960 were disqualified for medical reasons; and in a, 2-year period, October 1962 through September 1964, more than one-third (37.7 percent) of those disqualified for medical reasons were rejected for psychiatric reasons(3). Clearly, one must look beyond the results of physical exa,minations in school to identify the early signs of behavioral disorders.