This expert panel was convened at CyberTherapy 14, in Verbania, Italy, on June 23, 2009, for the purpose discussing current and future uses of technology for the mental health of deployed military service members. Panel members were selected on the basis of their being military mental health providers working with advanced technology either in combat zones or in military treatment facilities, o...

OBJECTIVE Disability is one of the significant problems that the public faces as regards social aspects, economics, public health and politics. Our aim was to review the prevalence of diseases causing disabilities in young adult men who are declared "unfit for military service" in Turkey after medical examination. METHODS We reviewed the prevalence of diseases among 113,175 young adult men wh...

A question that continues to worry practitioners and researchers is how much recruiters can trust self-reported measures of personality. Several models of faking assume that applicants differ in their motivation to fake, but field evidence regarding these differences is still rare. For the current field study, we exploited a unique setting: The examination for compulsory military service in Swi...

This paper estimates the causal impact of compulsory military service on men in Germany using social security and pension administrative data for the cohort of individuals born in the period 1932–1942. Due to the combination of laws restricting conscription only to men born on or after July 1, 1937, diff erence-in-diff erences estimates of the eff ect of conscription on average daily wages can ...

BACKGROUND Research has documented a consistent and strong association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and negative health outcomes in adulthood. The Department of Defense is expanding health surveillance of military members and considering the inclusion of ACE questions. OBJECTIVE To explore the perceptions and attitudes of service members and spouses regarding the use of ACE que...

The move towards Network Enabled Capability (NEC) by the UK Ministry of Defence is designed to achieve enhanced military effect through the networking and coherent integration of existing and future resources including sensors, weapon systems, and decision makers to achieve a more flexible and responsive military. This paper addresses the existing reliability and sustainability issues of large-...