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1 online resource (131 pages) |
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""Preface""; ""figures""; ""tables""; ""summary""; ""overview""; ""the problem""; ""how we studied the problem""; ""stress in wartime""; ""stress in the general scientific literature""; ""stress in the gulf war""; ""stress in the gulf war-specific scientific literature""; ""concluding observation""; ""acknowledgments""; ""glossary""; ""introduction""; ""background""; ""returning u.s. troops report health problems""; ""purpose of this report""; ""sources of evidence drawn upon to accomplish our objective""; ""organization of the report""; ""stress and health: definitions and concepts"" |
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""ILLNESS AND DISEASE""""STRESS""; ""CONCEPTUAL MODELS LINKING STRESS TO POOR HEALTH""; ""A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING WAR ZONE STRESSORS""; ""STRESS EXPOSURE IN THE PERSIAN GULF WAR""; ""OVERVIEW OF STRESSES EXPERIENCED BY VETERANS OF THE GULF WAR""; ""CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS WERE POSTULATED TO BE AT HIGH RISK FOR STRESS REACTIONS""; ""Combat Support and Combat Service Support Units""; ""Reservists and Reserve Units""; ""Persons or Units Not Assigned to a Parent Unit""; ""Persons Who Experienced High-Magnitude Stressors""; ""Others At Risk""; ""STRESS EXPOSURE AND PERCEIVED STRESS"" |
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""MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATIONS IN-THEATER""""SURVEYS CONDUCTED IN-THEATER""; ""SURVEYS CONDUCTED IN THE IMMEDIATE POST-GULF WAR PERIOD""; ""SURVEYS CONDUCTED SEVERAL YEARS FOLLOWING THE GULF WAR""; ""The Iowa Persian Gulf Study""; ""The Fort Devens Follow-Up Reunion Survey""; ""The WRAIR Study""; ""METHODOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""NON-GULF WAR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE LINKING STRESS TO HEALTH PROBLEMS""; ""STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES""; ""What Kind of Stress-Related Health Problems Arise?""; ""When Do Health Problems Begin?"" |
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""How Long Do Psychological Problems Last?""""STRESS AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES""; ""Overview""; ""Stress, Ill Health, and Disease""; ""War-Zone Exposure, Ill Health, and Disease""; ""COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL FACTORS IN THE PERCEPTION OF ILLNESS AND ILLNESS BEHAVIOR""; ""STRESS VULNERABILITY AND RESISTANCE""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""GULF WAR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE LINKING STRESS TO HEALTH PROBLEMS""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""STUDY SELECTION CRITERIA""; ""HOW STRESS EXPOSURE WAS MEASURED""; ""HOW HEALTH OUTCOMES WERE MEASURED""; ""STRESS EXPOSURE AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES"" |
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""Gulf War Stress Exposure and PTSD""""GULF WAR-RELATED STRESS EXPOSURE AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES""; ""GULF WAR-RELATED STRESS EXPOSURE AND BODILY SYMPTOMS""; ""FINDINGS SPECIFIC TO VULNERABLE GROUPS""; ""LIMITATIONS OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EXAMINING THE STRESS- HEALTH LINK""; ""SUMMARY OF THE STRESS-HEALTH LINK""; ""FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""WHAT DOES THE GENERAL SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE SAY ABOUT THE NATURE OF STRESS?""; ""DOES EVIDENCE INDICATE THAT DEPLOYED TROOPS WERE EXPOSED TO STRESS IN THE GULF?"" |
| Notes |
""Does the general scientific literature unrelated to the gulf war suggest that stress can contribute to poor health?"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Persian Gulf syndrome.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Persian Gulf Syndrome
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Persian Gulf syndrome
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Stress (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Lois M
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Marshall, Grant N
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| ISBN |
9780833043597 |
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0833043595 |
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