An Evaluation of the Effect of Military Service on Mortality: Quantifying the Healthy Soldier Effect

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 928-936

  McLaughlin, Ruth ^a   Nielsen, Lisa ^a   Waller, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Healthy Soldier Effect; Military; Mortality; SMR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONICS; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; MILITARY SERVICE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOLDIER; VETERAN;

AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 56549095859     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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