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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 recruited following WWII. Ron was privileged to achieve another first in 1972 by being in the first group of Chief Petty Officers to be promoted… Read more »
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 proprietor of the West Wimmera Mail newspaper, and Alice Ellen, nee Francis. Lionel Lockwood was born in Natimuk, near Horsham in Victoria, on 13 January… Read more »
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 available as a PDF download which can be downloaded within the full edition
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 fit into this essential primary need. Recent ADF operations, however, have included tasks other than war (OOTW) such as OPERATION SUMATRA ASSIST ONE and TWO…. Read more »
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 primary blast effects are most significant at airfluid interfaces such as the ear. Introduction Blast lung injury (BLI) presents a unique triage, diagnostic and management… Read more »
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 rehabilitation in the ADF; building a seamless rehabilitation management process; the essence of best practice rehabilitation programs; and the outcomes we expect to achieve. Purpose… Read more »
Introduction 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 soldiers deployed on exercises or operations in rural and remote areas may consider using local vegetation as part of their food supply to supplement… Read more »
Introduction 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 deployments. Traditionally deployment health studies have been retrospective studies examining health issues that have arisen from veterans’ concerns on return from deployment. The Deployment… Read more »
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 all aspects of this article. To begin with, the title of the article is important. Myers describes his paper as “a contribution to the study… Read more »
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 and colleagues from the Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health describes a small but seminal Australian pilot project that has informed the foundation and development… Read more »
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. AMM started as a fairly basic newsletter at the time of the Association’s formation in 1991. Over the succeeding years, and under the tutelage of… Read more »
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 Earthquake on the Indonesian Island of Nias which sadly, during this later deployment, a helicopter crashed and nine of our people paid the ultimate sacrifice.In… Read more »
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 from the highly successful joint Defence Health Services/AMMA Conference in Brisbane last year, the Association through its Council has been working to improve the way… Read more »
