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Health concerns in UK Armed Forces personnel.
As a result of the nature of their employment members of the UK Armed Forces may, on occasion, be exposed to physical danger. Although the nature of the occupational hazards they encounter may be predictable, such as enemy action or adverse climactic conditions, they are frequently far more uncertain. Most military professionals acknowledge that they may face danger as part of the job – that is...
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As we commemorate the centenary of World War 1 and the offi cial withdrawal of UK military troops from Afghanistan, the fate of former armed forces personnel has come into sharp focus once again. Most of the current generation of personnel who leave service make successful transitions back into civilian life. However, some personnel do not. A proportion will develop mental health problems, and ...
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BACKGROUND There is considerable interest in understanding further the factors that increase the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for military personnel. This study aimed to investigate the relative contribution of demographic variables; childhood adversity; the nature of exposure to traumatic events during deployment; appraisal of these experiences; and home-coming experiences in ...
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OBJECTIVES To compare the prevalence of self-reported risky driving in a sample of UK military personnel at 2 different time points (2004 and 2009), and to identify the incidence of new onset risky driving and possible determinants of becoming a new risky driver. METHODS Data were used from 2 phases of a military cohort study investigating the health and well-being of UK military personnel be...
متن کاملRisky driving among regular armed forces personnel from the United Kingdom.
BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for service personnel from the United Kingdom (UK). Little is known about the pattern of risky driving by these service personnel. METHODS Cross-sectional data (collected postdeployment, between June 2004 and March 2006) were analyzed from a large, randomly selected cohort of military personnel from the UK. These analyses were l...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal Armed Forces India
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0377-1237
DOI: 10.1016/s0377-1237(08)80056-1