Army health care operations in Iraq

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-17

  Young, Richard S K ^a   Gillan, Eileen ^a   Dingmann, Philip ^a   Casinelli, Paul ^a   Taylor, Colleen ^a  

^a Army National Guard Camp Rell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IRAQ; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WAR;

HUMANS; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 40949121646     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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