Long-term Health Consequences of Military Service: A Proposal to Strengthen Surveillance and Research

Affiliations

¹ Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, US Navy Integrated Biosurveillance Section, Medical Corps, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
² Hospitalist Section, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Emerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance, Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Division of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Jean-Paul Chretien et al. Public Health Rep. 2016 Nov.

. 2016 Nov;131(6):834-838.

doi: 10.1177/0033354916669342. Epub 2016 Oct 13.

¹ Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, US Navy Integrated Biosurveillance Section, Medical Corps, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
² Hospitalist Section, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Emerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance, Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Division of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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Keywords: deployment; environmental health; infectious diseases; military; surveillance; veteran.

Conflict of interest statement

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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