Perspectives on Future Health Care: Presented to the Division of Health Psychology at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC

Perspectives on Future Health Care: Presented to the Division of Health Psychology at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC

Contributor(s):
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
Publication:
Produced: 24 August 1982
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Public Health
Smoking Cessation
Preventive Medicine
Health Behavior
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Speeches
Abstract:
This speech reviewed the success and remaining challenges of federal public health initiatives in the areas of immunization, infant mortality, blood pressure control, and smoking cessation during the three years since U.S. Surgeon General Julius Richmond, Koop's predecessor, laid out numerical goals for improving the nation's health in his two reports, "Healthy People: Disease Prevention and Health Promotion," and "Promoting Health and Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation." Koop paid particular attention to the difficulty of convincing citizens of a democracy to change their behavior and lifestyle for the sake of improving their health, in the absence of governmental authority to compel such changes.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
24 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584930X16 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
QQBBBV
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X16
Archival Collection:
The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)