Health profile of Danish army personnel

Military Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 435-440

  Dahl, Søren ^a   Kristensen, Søren ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Danish Armed Forces Health Services   (Denmark)

^c Infirmary   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; DENMARK; FITNESS; HEALTH STATUS; LUNG FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; SOLDIER;

EID: 0030926363     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/162.6.435     Document Type: Article

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