Military Hygiene on Active Service

Military Hygiene

Military Hygiene

This is a new, revised and enlarged edition of Major Caldwell's well-known book on Military Hygiene. It gives a good account of those principles of sanitation which most nearly affect the soldier in his eveiy-day life, whether at home, abroad or in the field. Though primarily written for medical officers of his own Corps it is also hoped that it will be useful to officers of other branches of t...

Research on Aging Military Veterans; Lifespan Implications of Military Service

S continued was associated with significantly elevated PTSD symptom severity at the time of no PTSD diagnosis. No evidence was found for an aggravation of PTSD due to stressors associated with aging. [Author Abstract] Elder, G.H., & Clipp, E.C. (1988). Combat experience, comradeship, and psychological health. In J.P. Wilson, Z. Harel, & B. Kahana (Eds.), Human adaptation to extreme stress: From...

Military Service for Mental Defectives

The object of this article is to offer information gained in examining mentally defective soldiers, to show their limitations, and the risks involved in keeping them in the Army, and to outline the way in which they are being dealt with. In civilian life we have to consider mental defect as a failure in social adaptation due mainly to lack of sufficient intelligence but frequently also to poor ...

Patient satisfaction with dental hygiene providers in US military clinics.

PURPOSE Military service members receive their dental care from military dental clinics. The purposes of this study were to assess satisfaction and to identify predictors of patient satisfaction with the hygiene provider in military dental treatment facilities. METHODS Standardized surveys were administered from 2000 through 2004 by the Tri-Service Center for Oral Health Studies. Dependent va...