Factors associated with civilian mortality in Australian Vietnam veterans three decades after the war.
A prospective cohort study of a random sample of 1,000 Australian Army Vietnam veterans analyzed risk factors for postwar mortality using information from Army records and personal interview assessments of physical and mental health measured approximately 15 years earlier. This enabled examination o...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 175; no. 2; pp. 88 - 96 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2010
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