Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
As you read this, you will probably be sitting at the 2007 Australian Military Medicine Association Annual Scientific Conference in Melbourne. Over the last 12 months, and in the follow-on…
There are a number of themes that run through this edition. Firstly, a paper outlining recent deployments undertaken by the Australian Defence Force to help with humanitarian assistance following the…
Welcome to the first edition of the Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health. JMVH is the successor to Australian Military Medicine, the original journal of the Australian Military Medicine Association.…
This first issue of the new Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health publishes a significant paper in the history of deployment health surveillance. The paper by Associate Professor Scott Kitchener…
For both military medicine and for psychiatry, this paper is very important and even today there are lessons that can be taken from this work. There are interesting facets to…
Annette Dobson, Christine McClintock, Adrian Barnett, Sonya Bennett, Bradley McCall and Susanne Connor
In 1999, the then Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Minister Bruce Scott, announced that health reviews would be conducted for all Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel on future overseas…
This is the first in a series of articles looking at some unusual poisons that may not be familiar to most military health personnel. This is of particular relevance, as…
The Director of the ADF Rehabilitation Services, Mr Jim Porteous, presented this article at the Defence Health Symposium in Brisbane on 21 October 2006. This article explains the purpose of…
Blast lung injury (BLI) is a direct consequence of a blast wave from high explosive detonations upon the body. The physics of a blast wave are nonlinear and complex. The…
ADF operations are planned and executed in line with the government’s and the Operational Commander’s requirements. War fighting operations focus on winning the battle while health support is tailored to…
Reprinted from The Lancet, Volume 185, Issue 4772, 13 Feb 1915, pp 316-330 This article is reproduced with the kind permission of the Editors of The Lancet. It is only…
Lionel Lockwood was born in Natimuk, near Horsham in Victoria, on 13 January 1902. He was the eldest of four siblings and son of Alfred Wright Lockwood (1867-1956), journalist and…
Ronald Keith Josey joined the RAN February 1946 having transferred from the Army. On entry to HMAS Cerberus he was one of the first 30 Sick Berth Attendants to be…
