Building resilience in the war zone against hidden injury

Traumatic brain injury in the war zone.

Sergeant David Emme, a supply officer with a U.S. Army Stryker Brigade, was stationed at a submachine gun on a truck rolling through northern Iraq last November, in a convoy transporting Iraqi volunteers to Mosul for military training. As they entered the town of Talafar, Emme noticed that the streets were unusually quiet: no children were outdoors running toward the vehicles demanding sweets. ...

Family resilience and the fortunes of war.

Military families have been a subject of concern due to increasing divorce rates and child maltreatment that have been directly linked to the number and length of combat deployments. In contrast many military families show positive resilience in the wake of multiple deployments. This article looks at several special situations where military families are faced with serious challenges after depl...

The War against Mosquitos

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,? Many thanks for publishing my letter about Mosquito Brigades. My book on this subject is now nearly out. I enclose a list of our publications, and sent you some days ago my First Progress Sierra Leone Report. Now we send Annett and Dutton's Filaria Report, which you will see is a valuable work. Well, I do not think much has yet been done agai...

The Law of War in the War against Terrorism

Building physician resilience.

OBJECTIVE To explore the dimensions of family physician resilience. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews with family physician peers. SETTING Hamilton, Ont. PARTICIPANTS Purposive sample of 17 family physicians. METHOD An iterative process of face-to-face, in-depth interviews that were audiotaped and transcribed. The research team independently reviewed each interview for ...