Lifespan outcomes of military service

服兵役对健康和幸福的多个方面都有深远的影响。 尽管退伍军人是为了身体健康而被挑选出来的，而且服兵役也会带来一些积极的好处，但它可以 也会产生短期和长期的负面后果。迫切需要一种综合性的、 多学科方法理解风险和保护方面之间的动态相互作用 终身服兵役。 我们的目标是推进一种寿命方法来研究服兵役的长期影响 晚年生活结果(即健康、福祉、社会和经济状况)。为了实现这一目标，我们 提出四个目标： 1.建立一个全国性的学者网络，研究服兵役的终生结果。我们将建造 关于波士顿大学和退伍军人管理局波士顿的现有资源，以及我们与团队的持续合作 俄勒冈州立大学的成员。在咨询小组的建议下，我们将扩大我们的网络 以包括更广泛的成员和数据资源。 2.建设网上信息资源，促进国家信息资源的获取和综合利用 数据库。 3.使用本资源中描述的数据进行综合研究，开发和测试寿命 兵役长期结果模型，使用最先进的统计方法 纵向数据分析 4.通过讲习班、虚拟会议、 以及一个关于老龄化和服兵役的全国会议。 作为我们正在进行的活动的一部分，我们将通过公众访问网站发布信息资源 我们开发、展示和发表我们的发现，并培养下一代学者解决 服兵役对健康和福祉的影响。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 退伍军人在老龄化人口中占相当大的比例；了解他们的军队的影响 经验，特别是部署作战，将加强我们对其长期影响的了解 老龄化中的健康和幸福。虽然这一知识对理解当前的老龄化队列很有用 退伍军人，这也将有助于为OIF/OEF的“新”退伍军人制定计划，因为他们在即将到来的时间里变老 好几年了。

Military service has profound effects on multiple aspects of health and well-being across the lifespan. Although veterans are selected for good health, and military service confers some positive benefits, it can also have short- and long-term negative consequences. There is an urgent need for an integrative, multidisciplinary approach to understand the dynamic interplay between the risl< and protective aspects of military service across the lifespan. Our objective is to advance a lifespan approach to the study of the long-term effects of military service on later life outcomes (i.e., health, well-being, social and economic circumstances). To accomplish this, we propose four aims: 1. Create a national network of scholars to study the lifespan outcomes of military service. We will build on existing resources at Boston University and VA Boston, and our ongoing collaboration with team members at Oregon State University. With advice from our Advisory Group we will expand our network to include a broader range of members and data resources. 2. Build a web-based information resource to promote access to and integrative uses of national databases. 3. Conduct integrative research using data described in this resource, developing and testing a lifespan model of the long-term outcomes of military service, using state-of-the-art statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data 4. Promote new research adopting a lifespan perspective, by means of workshops, virtual conferencing, and a national conference on Aging and Military Service. As part of our on-going activities, we will disseminate via a public-access website the information resources we develop; present and publish our findings; and develop the next generation of scholars addressing the lifespan implications of military service on health and well-being. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Veterans constitute a sizable proportion of the aging population; understanding the impact of their military experiences, especially deployment to combat, will enhance our knowledge of their long-term effects on health and well-being in aging. While this knowledge is useful for understanding the current cohort of aging veterans, it will also be useful in planning for the "new" veterans of OIF/OEF as they age over the coming years.