Risk factors for disability retirement among healthy adults joining the U.S. Army

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-175

  Niebuhr, David W ^a   Krampf, Rebekah L ^a   Mayo, Jonathan A ^a,b   Blandford, Caitlin D ^a,b   Levin, Lynn I ^a   Cowan, David N ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Allied Technology Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951532832     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00114     Document Type: Article

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