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PubMed1997

[Current problems in the health protection of Armed Forces personnel].

Chief of the Russia Armed Forces Medical Service makes an analyses of the sanitary-epidemiological situation in the country and in the Armed Forces. The author estimates resulting labor losses, discharge and mortality rates among the military personnel by the classes of disease. He points out that the highest ratio correlation represent traumas, intoxication, circulation disorders and tumors. Preventive medicine's aims and principles should be formulated on the basis of morbidity rates among the servicemen in the army and Navy.

Disease Outbreaks↗
PubMed1999

A method of assigning socio-economic status classification to British Armed Forces personnel.

UNLABELLED: The objective of this paper was to develop and evaluate a socio-economic status classification method for British Armed Forces personnel. Two study groups comprising of civilian and Armed Forces families were identified from livebirths delivered between 1 January-30 June 1996 within the Northallerton Health district which includes Catterick Garrison and RAF Leeming. The participants were the parents of babies delivered at a District General Hospital, comprising of 436 civilian and 162 Armed Forces families. A new classification method was successfully used to assign Registrar General's social classification to Armed Forces personnel. Comparison of the two study groups showed a significant difference in social class distribution (p = 0.0001). CONCLUSION: This study has devised a new method for classifying occupations within the Armed Forces to categories of social class thus permitting comparison with Registrar General's classification.

Fathers↗
PubMed1979

Study of non-lepromatous leprosy among Indian Armed Forces personnel.

Clinico-histopathological study of 50 cases of Non-lepromatous leprosy among Indian Armed Forces personnel is presented. Maximum cases were of Tuberculoid (TT) type. Thirty four individuals were having single lesions. Posterior aspect of elbow and medial aspect of forearm were the favourite sites. Both Indian and Ridley and Jopling classification was studied while classifying the lesions. The individuals belonged to almost all the states of India. All of them denied the history of contact with a known case of leprosy. The highest prevalent age group was between 20 to 30 years. Two cases of Tuberculoid and 3 of Maculo-anaesthetic leprosy were without involvement of nerves.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Height, weight and body mass index (BMI) in psychiatrically ill US Armed Forces personnel.

BACKGROUND: In both psychiatrically ill and psychiatrically healthy adults, the connection between health and individuals' height and weight has long been examined. Specifically, research on the idea that individuals with certain body types were prone to particular psychiatric diseases has been explored sporadically for centuries. The hypothesis that psychiatrically ill individuals were shorter and weighed less than psychiatrically healthy counterparts would correspond with the neurodevelopmental model of psychiatric disease. METHOD: To evaluate possible links between psychiatric illness and physique, the height, weight and BMI of 7514 patients and 85,940 controls were compared. All subjects were part of the National Collaborative Study of Early Psychosis and Suicide (NCSEPS). Patients were US military active duty personnel hospitalized for either bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, or schizophrenia and controls were psychiatrically-healthy US military active duty personnel matched for date of entry into the service. RESULTS: No consistent differences in height, weight or BMI were found between patients and controls, or between patient groups. Some weak ANOVA differences were found between age at the time of entering active duty and weight, as well as BMI, but not height. CONCLUSIONS: Unlike most previous studies that have looked at the links between height and psychiatric illness, this study of the NCSEPS cohort found that, at entry into the US Armed Forces, there were no consistent decreases in height for patients with bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder or schizophrenia compared with a large control group. Furthermore, there were no consistent differences for weight or BMI.

Anthropometry↗