Women in the Gulf War: combat experience, exposures, and subsequent health care use

Caroline P Carney; Tomoko R Sampson; Margaret Voelker; Robert Woolson; Peter Thorne; Bradley N Doebbeling

doi:10.1093/milmed/168.8.654

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Women in the Gulf War: combat experience, exposures, and subsequent health care use

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Women in the Gulf War: combat experience, exposures, and subsequent health care use

Caroline P Carney, Tomoko R Sampson, Margaret Voelker, Robert Woolson, Peter Thorne and Bradley N Doebbeling

Military medicine, Vol.168(8), pp.654-661

08/2003

DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.8.654

PMID: 12943043

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Abstract

The expanding role of women in the military raises questions related to the military experiences of women serving in major conflicts. We assess the military experiences and postwar health care use of women who served during the Gulf War. Data from a population-based survey of military personnel serving between August 1990 and July 1991 assessing military preparedness, combat experience, occupational and other service-related exposures, and health care use were analyzed. Deployed women were more often in the Army, single, without children, college educated, and reported fewer vaccinations. Deployed men and women had similar military experiences; however, men more often participated in combat. Deployed women had more outpatient and inpatient health care use 5 years after deployment and more often received Department of Veterans Affairs compensation than men. If these important differences in exposures and health care use are confirmed in other studies, optimal training and deployment preparedness strategies should be reconsidered.

Cross-Sectional Studies

Military Personnel

United States

Humans

Linear Models

Male

Warfare

Health Surveys

Sex Factors

Adult

Female

Interviews as Topic

Retrospective Studies

Iraq

Delivery of Health Care - statistics & numerical data

Health Status

Occupational Exposure - statistics & numerical data

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Title: Subtitle: Women in the Gulf War: combat experience, exposures, and subsequent health care use
Creators: Caroline P Carney - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. caroline-carney@uiowa.edu
Tomoko R Sampson
Margaret Voelker
Robert Woolson
Peter Thorne
Bradley N Doebbeling
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Military medicine, Vol.168(8), pp.654-661
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.8.654
PMID: 12943043
NLM abbreviation: Mil Med
ISSN: 0026-4075
eISSN: 1930-613X
Publisher: England
Grant note: U50/CCU711513 / ODCDC CDC HHS 5 T32 MH15158-23 / NIMH NIH HHS
Language: English
Date published: 08/2003
Academic Unit: Statistics and Actuarial Science; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Biostatistics
Record Identifier: 9983997461502771

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