What does occupational health mean for the members of our armed forces? What challenges do service members face that we don’t usually think of or aren’t even aware of, and how does the military protect their health when they are at home and when they are deployed?
WWII flight surgeon and 2 hospital corpsmen, excerpt from publication.
The comprehensive textbook, Occupational Health and the Service Member, dives into these issues. Each branch of the military has extensive programs in place to monitor and assess workplaces and health hazards. This fascinating textbook traces the evolution of those programs over time, showing that some issues remain constant and others are new to each century.
The book helps you understand the structure of military medicine and who is responsible for what, in all the branches of the services. It also provides references to laws, directives, and policies that apply to these concerns. Finally, the book includes information to help the medical professionals treating service members consider and identify exposure cases, as well as provide useful treatment for maintaining good health, wherever the soldier is deployed or serving. It also archives information on exposures that may be of concern among deployed service members, documenting the data repositories development for registries, as well as studies conducted with this data.
Some of the health issues potentially facing service members and their healthcare providers include:
- Long-term noise exposure and its associated impact on hearing
- Asbestos or lead exposure
- Radiation and chemical hazards
- Repetitive motion injuries
- High altitude exposure and decompression sickness
- Carbon monoxide exposure from weapons firing and other sources
- Beryllium disease
US Navy Mk V Mod 1 diving helmet used c.1905-1980.
As is evident with many other product titles within the popular, Textbooks of Military Medicine series, this volume presents historical relevance of warfare and work environment exposures that are part of military personnel duties and an overview of assessments for possible medical treatments from past decades and wars to 21st Century public health challenges within military service occupations.
If you are interested in more about this topic, check out the Borden Institute, which develops and publishes military medical scholarship.
Don’t miss the Images from the History of Medicine in the National Library of Medicine’s digital collections if you want to see over 70,000 fascinating photos and drawings from the 15th century to the present. This collection includes lots of images of military personnel and places.
And one last thought to consider: could you pass the new Army Combat Fitness Test?
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