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The Vietnam veteran experience: A l...

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The Vietnam veteran experience: A life course and aging perspective.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Vietnam veteran experience: A life course and aging perspective./
作者:	Brooks, Matthew Stephen.
面頁冊數:	240 p.
附註:	Adviser: Sarah Laditka.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07B.
標題:	Gerontology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3272430
ISBN:	9780549123606

The Vietnam veteran experience: A life course and aging perspective.
Brooks, Matthew Stephen.

The Vietnam veteran experience: A life course and aging perspective. - 240 p.

Adviser: Sarah Laditka.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 2007.

The 8.4 million Vietnam era veterans are the largest cohort of living U.S. veterans, constituting 32% of all living veterans. Half are age 65 or over. Yet, relatively little is known about the long-term effects of military service in Vietnam on mental and physical health, or on needs for Veteran's Administration (VA) services and benefits. I used a nationally representative survey of veterans to examine mental health, physical health, and use of VA medical and education benefits. My overarching research question was: drawing on life-course theory, among a cohort of Vietnam era veterans, how does mental health, physical health, and use of VA services and benefits, differ between those who served in Vietnam and those who served elsewhere?

ISBN: 9780549123606Subjects--Topical Terms:

533633
Gerontology.

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520 $a The 8.4 million Vietnam era veterans are the largest cohort of living U.S. veterans, constituting 32% of all living veterans. Half are age 65 or over. Yet, relatively little is known about the long-term effects of military service in Vietnam on mental and physical health, or on needs for Veteran's Administration (VA) services and benefits. I used a nationally representative survey of veterans to examine mental health, physical health, and use of VA medical and education benefits. My overarching research question was: drawing on life-course theory, among a cohort of Vietnam era veterans, how does mental health, physical health, and use of VA services and benefits, differ between those who served in Vietnam and those who served elsewhere?
520 $a I used nationally representative survey data from the 2001 National Survey of Veterans (NSV), conducted by the VA. I restricted the data to veterans of the Vietnam era. Vietnam era veterans in the 2001 NSV (n=7,914): 3,937 served in Vietnam; 3,977 served elsewhere. The exposure variable indicated whether the veteran served in Vietnam or elsewhere. I examined eight mental health outcomes; ten physical health measures, and six VA benefit and service use outcomes. Analyses included bivariate comparisons and multiple logistic regression. Multivariate models controlled for sociodemographic characteristics of veterans including age, gender, education, race/ethnicity, income and occupational status. All analyses were weighted for national representation.
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