Changes over time in the "healthy soldier effect"

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Waller, Michael ^a   McGuire, Annabel C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; MILITARY APPLICATION; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STANDARDIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; VETERAN; WAR;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79952496432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-7     Document Type: Article

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