Due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the unmet medical and psychological needs of military personnel are creating major challenges. Increasingly, active duty military personnel are seeking physical and mental health services from civilian professionals. The Civilian Medical Resources Network attempts to address these unmet needs. Participants in the Network include primary care and mental h...

The U.S. joint military medical community has an increasing role in collaborative health sector engagement internationally as part of a whole of government approach to successful operations. The military must master the ability to catalyze health sector gains that can be developed by hosts, U.S. Government, and international agencies in both permissive environments and conflict zones. Capacity ...

The Pandemic Influenza Policy Model (PIPM) is a collaborative computer modeling effort between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Many helpful computer simulations exist for examining the propagation of pandemic influenza in civilian populations. We believe the mission-oriented nature and structured social composition of military in...

Croatian military medicine developed with the Croatian State and Army. Severe war conditions called for a military medicine that would integrate civil and military components: General Hospital Karlovac, medical corps of the Croatian Army, and emergency, preventive, and general medicine care. The wounded from the entire battlefield of the Karlovac area were admitted to and treated at the General...

Adenovirus are important pathogen primarily associated to respiratory infections of children and military personnel, even though it is also associated to cases of conjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis. We analyzed respiratory secretion collected from subjects with and without respiratory infection symptoms, being 181 civilians and 221 military subjects. The samples were inoculated in HEp-2 an...

BACKGROUND Military culture and workplace are areas of interest for researchers across disciplines. However, few publications on military culture exist. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce general concepts regarding the structure and culture of the United States Military and discuss how this creates challenges for reintegrating into the civilian world. METHOD Topics that w...

Brazil led the military contingent of MINUSTAH during 13 years mission and was also largest contributor with troops for this mission. This paper argues that what has been described as ‘Brazilian way’ civil-military relations in peacekeeping is illustrative Brazilian association between notions security development at home. The mandate actually representative efforts to promote new paradigms UN ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the effectiveness of policies and programs aimed at combating substance abuse in the military requires comparison with the civilian population from which military personnel are drawn. METHODS Standardized comparisons of the use of alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes among military personnel and civilians were conducted with data from the 1985 Worldwide Survey of Alcohol an...

Information operations have gained importance in recent years. the capabilities to influence the enemy’s information or the attitudes of the civilian population in theaters of conflict, and to secure one’s own information and information systems, have become important success factors in military operations. the concept has given rise to vehement controversies, however. disagreement remains over...