Self-Rated Health and Subsequent Health Care Use among Military Personnel Returning from International Deployments

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 128-133

  Trump, David H ^a,d   Brady, P Jeffrey ^b,c   Olsen, Cara H ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b Army Medical Surveillance Activity   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; ARMY; ARTICLE; ASIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLOYMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1442282170     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.2.128     Document Type: Article

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