Evaluating active duty risk-taking: Military home, education, activity, drugs, sex, suicide, and safety method

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1164-1167

  Hutchinson, Jeffrey W ^a   Greene, Jeffery P ^b   Hansen, Shana L ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

DEATH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY SERVICE; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOLDIER; SUICIDE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 57449104541     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.12.1164     Document Type: Review

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