OBJECTIVE To review the clinical findings in the first 1000 veterans seen in the Ministry of Defence's Gulf war medical assessment programme to examine whether there was a particular illness related to service in the Gulf. DESIGN Case series of 1000 veterans who presented to the programme between 11 October 1993 and 24 February 1997. SUBJECTS Gulf war veterans. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Diagn...

Purpose: To describe how case management can improve the transition between services for returning servicemen injured in war zones who often have very complex and multiple injuries. Context: Reviews a project undertaken for the Ministry of Defence in the UK. Data sources: Case management across secondary and primary care—studies; Literature relating to care of casualties from war zones; Statist...

This study focuses on the period of Portuguese Overseas War (1961–1974), with aim analysing role military accounting in Portugal, particularly regarding whether state budgetary procedures were adapted to meet needs and military. The analysis was developed by considering budget constraints faced at time, which profoundly influenced laws public sector that had two main goals concerning control ba...

The much awaited Chilcot report focused on the legitimacy of the UK going to war in Iraq. But the UK citizens most directly affected by the war were members of the armed forces and their families. A total of 179 British service personnel were killed in the conflict, and manymore received life changing physical and mental injuries. TheMinistry Of Defence reports a total of 5970 casualties, inclu...

through a decree of imam khomeini, the jihad-e sazandegi organ was formed in 1979 with the aim of rebuilding rural regions and providing services to the deprived areas. initially, it was not thought the jihad to be also involved in uncivil activities as well, but with the beginning of the conflicts before the imposed war and then the war itself, the necessaries required this organization to do ...

The purpose of this study was to compare symptoms of PTSD among war affected people and employees in the fire station. Totally, 60 people affected by war and 60 fire workers were selected using simple random sampling. By completing PCL inventory, samples of PTSD were characterized. Data was analysed through SPSS software by independent t-test. As the results showed, severity of PTSD symptoms am...

You who more than oncespelled angle when meaning angel,are now one—maybe both.A sharp line on white paperdriving hardand fastin another spacewhose numbersI do not know.YetIn the arithmeticof our individual journeys,let us incline,My dearest angle,toward that vertexthat despite variantswe bend,infinite together,while angels math.