Financial well-being and post deployment adjustment among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 669-675

  Elbogen, Eric B ^a,b   Johnson, Sally C ^a   Ryan Wagner, H ^c   Newton, Virginia M ^a   Beckham, Jean C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR DEPRESSION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICS; WAR;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BRAIN INJURIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; INCOME; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84864110947     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00388     Document Type: Article

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