Effects of Iraq/Afghanistan deployments on PTSD diagnoses for still active personnel in all four services

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 763-769

  Shen, Yu Chu ^a,b   Arkes, Jeremy ^a,c   Kwan, Boon Wah ^a   Tan, Lai Yee ^a   Williams, Thomas V ^d  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957994671     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00086     Document Type: Article

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