Health impact of US military service in a large population-based military cohort: Findings of the Millennium Cohort Study, 2001-2008

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Smith, Tyler C ^a   Jacobson, Isabel G ^a   Hooper, Tomoko I ^a   Leardmann, Cynthia A ^a   Boyko, Edward J ^a   Smith, Besa ^a   Gackstetter, Gary D ^a   Wells, Timothy S ^a   Amoroso, Paul J ^a   Gray, Gregory C ^a   Riddle, James R ^a   Ryan, Margaret A K ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251577703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-69     Document Type: Article

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