Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
2010 is a third over and the Defence Health Symposium in Canberra from the 29th to 31st October draws ever closer. The organising committee, under the watchful eye of Dr…
On 14 September 1915, Tasmania’s Seventh Field Ambulance C Section relieved the New Zealanders who were in charge of the dressing station under Hill 971, to the left of the…
Background: The Tobruk Lines Health Centre (TLHC) is the primary health care facility for the Special Operations Working Accommodation (SOWA) at Holsworthy Barracks, Sydney. TLHC has responsibility for maintaining routine…
Background: To be able to improve soldiers’ service performance it is essential to know what factors are an influence upon it. Purpose: To examine the relationship between soldiers’ service performance…
There are a number of well accepted risks for the air traveller1,2,3,4. Although the risks are generally low for the healthy traveller, there are subgroups in the population that are…
Background With soldiers carrying increasing loads, physical conditioning may provide one means of reducing injuries and increasing the ability to train, maintain and retain soldiers. Purpose The purpose of this…
On 16 December 1943, I was sitting at the Navigator's seat in a very noisy Lancaster bomber over Berlin when something occurred that changed the pattern of my life. We…
Daniel Ellis and Matthew Hooper *1st edition 2010, 286 pages, paperback with illustrations, ISBN 978-0-7295-3848-8. Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier.Australia. RRP AUD70.00. Pre-hospital and retrieval medicine is an essential component of the…
Psychotropic Expert Group. *Version 6. xxv+325pp, paperback, ISBN 978-0-9804764-2-2. Melbourne, Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, AUD39.00, 2008. Apart from major textbooks, there have been few handbooks published specifically on psychotropic guidelines. This…
Edited by Stephen Gillan, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath *1st edn. xiii +335 pp, paperback with illustrations and CD, ISBN 978-0-521-68983-0. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, RRP AUD97.00, 2007 Public health…
Post–Traumatic Stress symptoms account for an increasing number of presentations to health service facilities by Australian Defence Force personnel . The cost of management is absorbing a significant proportion of…
Billy Bacon couldn’t outrun the German machine gun bullets, although his actions saved the lives of two of his fellow diggers. I have just returned from seeing ‘Beneath Hill 60’,…
