PEDIATRICS Vol. 27 No. 3 March 1961, pp. 440
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Gesundeit und Leistungsfahigkeit im Kindes- und Jugendalter

PETER STERN M.D.

This book constitutes a valuable contribution to the problems of physical fitness of today's children and adolescents. According to the World Health Organization's definition, "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social comfort." The authors proceed to prove in a series of interesting statistical, sociologic and physiological studies, why the general state of health of West Germany's youth falls short of this goal. In spite of the great reduction of infant mortality and the increase of general life-expectancy in the past 80 years, the situation of the child in modern society is considered to be unsatisfactory.

One third of the West German population lives in big cities, believed to create a hostile environment to children, i.e. lack of security and "Lebensraum."