background the impact of stress in today's world is undeniable and because of the impact of stress on general personal health, the aim of this study was to examine the effects of stress management on students' general health during general training at the army school of imam hossein university, tehran. materials & methods the present research was a quasi-experimental study. the popula...

BACKGROUND Public health is a multidisciplinary activity whose fields of action are acquiring an increasingly broad. The Service de santé des armées (SSA) has always had a culture of public health problems thanks to doctors specialized in the treatment of major diseases. Often involved in public health activities, health professionals nevertheless have a fragmented vision. The objective was to ...

In the event of a major European war the Army Medical Services (AMS), of whom the majority would be drawn from the Territorial Army (TA), would be exposed to a unique combination of stresses. Ways of reducing the effects of these are discussed.

This was a clinical and audiometric survey of a sample of 299 Territorial Army (TA) servicemen in the London area to identify the priority to be given to and the broad content of a Hearing Conservation Programme for the TA. A questionnaire was used to estimate previous noise exposure and the use of hearing protection. It is estimated that 4% of TA personnel have a hitherto undetected hearing lo...

wo US Army officers; a Hollywood writer and producer; a famous film actor and director; and our host, a local jewelry dealer, are sitting around the table with me at a curiously empty restaurant in Juarez, Mexico. I order a mango fish plate and try to keep up with the conversation, which has drifted toward the Los Angeles real estate market. Notably, I'm the only one at the table with an ambigu...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate and compare the educational impact of the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine (UGFM) emergency medicine clerkship training with that provided by the Swiss Army medical officer cadets school (ARMY). The assessment was designed to assess students' clinical knowledge and competency in major emergency situations, ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and ATLS (Advanced Tr...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...