A Review of Military Health Research Using a Social-Ecological Framework

American Journal of Health Promotion : AJHP
Pauline Lubens, Tim A Bruckner

Abstract

We aim to contextualize the growing body of research on the sequelae of military service in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We employ a social-ecological (SE) framework for the taxonomy of military health research and classify risk as arising from the individual, family, community, and the institutional levels. We intend for this review to inform enhanced health promotion efforts in military communities. Articles reviewed were extracted from Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus. Research focused on somatic and psychological sequelae of combat deployment published from 2001-the year the war in Afghanistan began-through the end of 2014. We excluded studies of non-US military personnel, other systematic reviews, meta-analyses, book chapters, and theoretical papers. We examined and summarized the aims, participants, methods, study design, SE framework tier, risk factors, and health outcomes. Studies were categorized according to SE tier, whether they focused on somatic, behavioral, or psychological outcomes, and by risk factor. Of the 352 peer-reviewed papers, 84% focused on war's sequelae on the index military personnel, and 75% focused on mental or behavioral health outcomes-mostly on post-traumatic stress disorder. We find compa...Continue Reading

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