scholarly journals Factors associated with women's risk of rape in the military environment. Am J Ind Med 43:262-273, 2003.

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne G. Sadler ◽  
Brenda M. Booth ◽  
Brian L. Cook ◽  
Bradley N. Doebbeling
Keyword(s):  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Age, Race, and At-Risk Drinking in an HIV-infected U.S. Military Cohort

2019 ◽  
Vol 184 (5-6) ◽  
pp. e263-e267
Author(s):  
Morgan Byrne ◽  
Robert Deiss ◽  
Octavio Mesner ◽  
Margaret Glancey ◽  
Anuradha Ganesan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Adverse Health Outcomes ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Caucasian Race ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
High Risk Drinking ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Introduction There is a high prevalence of at-risk drinking in the U.S. military. Among HIV-infected individuals, alcohol abuse confers additional risk for adverse health outcomes. In the military, however, the characteristics of HIV-infected individuals who engage in high-risk drinking are not well defined. The purpose of this study was to assess risk factors associated with at-risk drinking in an HIV-positive longitudinal cohort of DoD beneficiaries. Materials and Methods Annual prevalence of at-risk drinking was calculated for members of the U.S. Military HIV Natural History Study who initiated highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) during or after January 2006 through May 2014; each participant completed at least one self-reported alcohol survey within a year of HAART initiation. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression was used to analyze factors associated with at-risk drinking. Results Sixty-six percent of subjects (495/752) reported at-risk drinking on at least one survey after HAART initiation. At-risk drinkers were more likely to be Active Duty compared to Retired (OR 0.65 95% CI [0.46, 0.92]). In multivariate models, Caucasian race (OR 3.30 95% CI [2.31, 4.71]); Hispanic/other race (OR 2.17 95% CI [1.51, 3.14]) and younger age (OR 0.61 per 10 years older, [95%CI 0.49, 0.75]) were significantly associated with at-risk drinking. Single relationship status (OR 1.51 95% CI [1.08, 2.13]) was also associated with at-risk drinking. Conclusions Consistent with general alcohol consumption patterns in the military, we found a high prevalence of at-risk drinking among individuals with HIV infection, which was associated most closely with young, non-African Americans. Targeting interventions toward this group will be important to reduce at-risk drinking and its potential for HIV-related complications.

Factors Associated with Spouses Moving away from Their Military Installation during an Overseas Deployment

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1275-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
D. Bruce Bell ◽  
Benjamin Knott
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Military Installation ◽  
Military Support ◽  
The Military ◽  
Overseas Deployment

During overseas deployments, many spouses and families move away from their initial military installation, usually to live with or near relatives. Relatively little has been known about those who move away even though the issue is of importance to the military because its support systems are designed on the assumption that family members are living in proximity to those support systems. The purpose of this research was to describe the characteristics of those who actually moved away during a deployment compared to those who stayed but wanted to leave and to those who stayed. Results generally fit a social exchange model of reasons for moving, staying, or wanting to move but staying. High stress appears to lead to a desire to move but other factors act as barriers or facilitators to actually moving. Military family support did not predict moving away or staying. Implications for military support services are discussed.

Is It Mainly Tactics?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Omar Ashour
Keyword(s):  
Regime Type ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Military Tactics ◽  
Combat Effectiveness ◽  
External Power ◽  
The Military ◽  
Academic Study

This chapter introduces the puzzle of the military endurance and combat effectiveness of ISIS/IS, though outnumbered and outgunned by substantially stronger state and nonstate militaries. Beginning with the academic study of insurgency dating back to Lawrence, Mao, Templar, Lansdale, Guevara, Galula, Hoffman and more recent scholars; this book explores traditional factors associated with insurgency success, such as the support of an external power, popular support from the disaffected population, sanctuary, geography or topography, regime type, or other factors, which might, individually or in combination, be explanatory of ISIS/IS endurance and expansion. Most of those factors are found not to be especially significant, so the chapter focuses on the military strategies and tactics employed by ISIS/IS and central to its successes. The chapter then argues that the military tactics employed by ISIS/IS in the four countries and elsewhere better explain their expansion and endurance. The chapter concludes by outlining a framework of analysis explaining ISIS/IS combat effectiveness in the four countries and beyond.

Drivers

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Thomas Waldman
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Small Wars ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military ◽  
Us Intervention

This chapter explains the phenomenon as vicarious warfare confronts us today, and studies the multiple factors driving its modern adoption. It argues that vicarious warfare has come to dominate US strategic practice over the last decade, but in its contemporary form, it emerged out of developments apparent since at least the early 1990s, and in certain areas well before that. The chapter begins by considering some of the underlying factors that make proactive, forceful US intervention appear to policymakers as both essential and feasible. These should be understood as necessary but not sufficient factors because they do not necessarily preclude alternative military approaches more in line with the prescriptions of the other traditions of conventional battle or small wars. Why predominantly vicarious methods have come to the fore will become apparent as the chapter progresses to consider more specific and circumstantial factors associated with core sections of US society: namely, the military, the wider public and the media. The chapter concludes by bringing the analysis together to explain how, due to the confluence of developments in these various spheres, vicarious warfare emerges as an especially appealing solution for defence officials and political leaders facing multiple competing pressures and exigencies.

scholarly journals Tattoos on 18-year-old male adolescents - Characteristics and associated factors

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 925-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Froner Bicca ◽  
Rodrigo Pereira Duquia ◽  
Juliano de Avelar Breunig ◽  
Paulo Ricardo Martins de Souza ◽  
Hiram Larangeira de Almeida Jr
Keyword(s):  
Associated Factors ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Viral Diseases ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The Military

BACKGROUND: Prevalence of tattoos is around 10-26% in men and 10-22% in women, and can involve negative effects such as: regret, removal attempts, physical and biological changes of the skin and association with some viral diseases. OBJECTIVE: to determine the prevalence, characteristics and factors associated with tattoos in recruiters joining the military. METHODS: the recruiters were examined by dermatologists that documented the presence or absence of tattoos, as well as their sizes, colors, designs and patterns, and whether they needed a parent's consent to get a tattoo. RESULTS: 1,968 recruiters were examined and the prevalence of tattoos was 10.82% (213), 141 (66.20%) had a single tattoo, 44 (20.66%) two tattoos, 15 (7.04%) three tattoos, 9 (4.23%) four tattoos, and 4 (1.88%) had more than four. Of the total sample, 168 (80.77%) reported getting the first tattoo before the age of 18. 158 (74.53%) were monochromatic. In relation to size, 108 (50.70%) had tattoos of up to 10 cm, 75 (35.21%) had tattoos measuring between 11-20cm, while 30 had ones over 21cm (14.09%). CONCLUSIONS: The population studied had a high prevalence of tattoos for their age, the percentage of complex (large and polychromatic) tattoos was also high.

Factors associated with women's risk of rape in the military environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne G. Sadler ◽  
Brenda M. Booth ◽  
Brian L. Cook ◽  
Bradley N. Doebbeling
Keyword(s):  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Military

Risk factors associated with abnormal parturition and their effects on production and reproductive performance in Frieswal cattle of India

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar ◽  
Umesh Singh ◽  
Rani Alex ◽  
Sushil Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Milk Yield ◽  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Premature Birth ◽  
Dry Period ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Lactation Length ◽  
Chi Square Analysis ◽  
The Military

Records of 1024 Frieswal cows maintained at the Military Farm, Meerut, India over a period of 20 years from 1989 to 2008, sired by 91 bulls were included in the present study to assess the incidence and risk factors associated with abnormal parturition like dystocia, stillbirth, premature birth and abortion. The overall incidence of abnormal parturition in this herd of Frieswal was 14.01%, out of which 7.91, 3.99, 1.12 and 0.99% correspond to stillbirth, abortion, dystocia and premature birth. Wald Chi square analysis revealed season of calving (p<0.04), period of calving (p<0.0001) and parity (p<0.0008) influenced normal calving. The effect of abnormal parturition on the total milk yield, lactation length, calving interval and dry period was also assessed along with other non-genetic factors viz., season, period of calving and parity. A reduction in milk yield was observed (p<0.01) in animals which had undergone abnormal parturition (2723.75± 67.88 kg) in comparison to normally calved animals (3310.08± 35.36 kg). The dry period was also found to be longer in abnormally calved animals (127.18±4.63 days) than normal ones (117.75±2.39 days). Regular monitoring and better reproductive management will surely reduce the incidence of abnormal parturition, and thereby increase the production and reproductive performance of the animals.

Factors Associated with Progression to Surgical Intervention for Lumbar Disc Herniation in the Military Health System

Spine ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley B. Anderson ◽  
Matthew J. Braswell ◽  
Alfred J. Pisano ◽  
Nora L. Watson ◽  
Jonathan F. Dickens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Lumbar Disc Herniation ◽  
Disc Herniation ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Lumbar Disc ◽  
Military Health System ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals SARCOIDOSIS IN MILITARY PERSONNEL: BASES OF DIAGNOSTICS, TREATMENT AND FOLLOW-UP

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
A. A. Zaitsev ◽  
A. A. Wiesel ◽  
D. N. Antipushina
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Asymptomatic Patients ◽  
Unified Algorithm ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diffusion Function ◽  
The Military

Sarcoidosis is an urgent problem for the military medical service of various law enforcement agencies. In recent years, there has been an increase in the incidence of sarcoidosis among young people undergoing military service and the creation of a unified algorithm of medical care for this contingent is important. The publication presents the epidemiology of the disease, known risk factors, and triggers for the development of sarcoidosis in military sailors. The most important factors associated with a high risk of sarcoidosis are: high dustiness of the air, diesel and rocket fuel vapors, and various types of radiation. In military personnel, the second stage of sarcoidosis is most common. The recurrence rate of the disease is 20%, and the factors associated with the recurrent course of sarcoidosis in military personnel are — the age of more than 35 years; the presence of clinical manifestations of sarcoidosis (cough, weakness, shortness of breath); forced lung capacity <85%; a history of systemic glucocorticosteroids. The article presents the recommended algorithm and methods for examining patients with sarcoidosis. It is noted that the main point is the mandatory morphological verification of the process in the military. Special attention is paid to the treatment of sarcoidosis in the publication. It is noted that, given the high frequency of remissions, treatment is not indicated for stage I, as well as for asymptomatic patients with stages II and III of sarcoidosis, provided that only mild disorders of the ventilation and diffusion function of the lungs are present. All patients with sarcoidosis are subject to active medical supervision.

Factors Associated with Spouses Moving away from their Military Installation during an Overseas Deployment

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1275-1282
Author(s):  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
D. Bruce Bell ◽  
Benjamin Knott
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Military Installation ◽  
Military Support ◽  
The Military ◽  
Overseas Deployment

During overseas deployments, many spouses and families move away from their initial military installation, usually to live with or near relatives. Relatively little has been known about those who move away even though the issue is of importance to the military because its support systems are designed on the assumption that family members are living in proximity to those support systems. The purpose of this research was to describe the characteristics of those who actually moved away during a deployment compared to those who stayed but wanted to leave and to those who stayed. Results generally fit a social exchange model of reasons for moving, staying, or wanting to move but staying. High stress appears to lead to a desire to move but other factors act as barriers or facilitators to actually moving. Military family support did not predict moving away or staying. Implications for military support services are discussed.

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