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Canadian Armed Forces Members’ Perspectives on Health Service Transition Prior to Military Release

In Canada, military-to-civilian transition (MCT) involves transitioning from military to civilian primary care. This is an important but underexplored aspect of MCT. We investigated releasing military members’ perspectives on the…

Military Mortality on Pacific Islands: Implications for Future Armed Conflicts

Future armed conflict in the Indo-Pacific region may see small detachments of soldiers deployed on isolated Pacific Islands for extended periods. Historical experiences with such deployments, particularly during World War…

Black Measles during the Civil War

Black measles (Rubeola nigra) was understood to be an infrequent, severe subtype of measles defined by a very dark, nearly confluent rash in the 19th century. During the US Civil…

The Evolution of Operational Health support Provided to the United States, United Kingdom and Australian Special Operations Forces from 1940–2024

Over the last 85 years, medical support to Special Operations Forces (SOF) units has evolved from rudimentary beginnings to highly sophisticated care. While some of this evolution reflects changes in…

Importance of the Spleen to Survival from P falciparum

P falciparum infections carry a considerable mortality risk, but the nature of the ‘immunity’ gained from infection experience is uncertain. Although anaemia may contribute some protection against mortality, the function…

Stuart Naval Warfare, Ships and Medicine 1603–1714

Previous articles in this series described the development of a cycle from prehistory to 1900, whereby increasing maritime trade necessitated larger and more efficient ships to transport merchandise and better…

Psychological Screening in the Australian Defence Force: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis of what Works

With a rapid and significant rise in psychological screening within the Australian Defence Force (ADF) over the past 20 years, ambiguity has developed between a psychological screen and a psychological…

BATTLEFIELD LEGACIES: THE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION OF WWI PATHOLOGICAL SPECIMENS

Hearder R. Battlefield legacies: The Australian collection of WW1 pathological specimens. Aust Mil Med 1999;. Rosalind Hearder BA (Hons) is a military medical historian who is currently doing her PhD…

Australia and the Boxer Rebellion 1900 -The South Australian Contingent

August 2000 is the centenary of Australia's involvement in the Boxer Rebellion. This was only the second and last time that the colonial naval forces saw overseas service, the first…

Regional Health Support Agency South Queensland Donations to AMMA Library

The Regional Health Support Agency South Queensland has, through the kind offices of the Director of Health Services, Colonel Vlas Efstathis, OAM, RFD, RAAMC, donated three books to the Australian…