Author: Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deploymen
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: effects, deployment, related, stress, psychosocial, psychologic, war, health, volume, physiologic, gulf
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $71.75
ISBN-10: 0309101778
ISBN-13: 9780309101776

Book DescriptionThe sixth in a series of congressionally mandated reports on Gulf War veterans’ health, this volume evaluates the health effects associated with stress. Since the launch of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, there has been growing concern about the physical and psychological health of Gulf War and other veterans. In the late 1990s, Congress responded by asking the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review and evaluate the scientific and medical literature regarding associations between illness and exposure to toxic agents, environmental or wartime hazards, and preventive