Lifespan outcomes of military service

服兵役对整个生命周期的健康和福祉的多个方面产生深远影响。 虽然退伍军人被选为身体健康，兵役赋予一些积极的好处，它可以 也会产生短期和长期的负面影响。迫切需要一个综合的、 多学科方法，以了解风险和社会责任与 终生服兵役 我们的目标是推进一种寿命方法来研究服兵役对儿童的长期影响。 以后的生活结果（即，健康、福利、社会和经济状况）。为了做到这一点，我们 提出四个目标： 1.建立一个全国学者网络，研究服兵役的寿命结果。我们将建立 波士顿大学和VA波士顿的现有资源，以及我们与团队的持续合作 成员在俄勒冈州州立大学。在咨询小组的建议下，我们将扩大网络 包括更广泛的成员和数据资源。 2.建立一个网上信息资源，以促进获得和综合利用国家 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 军事服务的长期结果模型，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， 和一个关于老龄化和兵役的全国会议。 作为我们持续活动的一部分，我们将通过一个公众访问的网站发布信息资源 我们开发;提出并发表我们的研究结果;并开发下一代学者解决 服兵役对健康和福祉的寿命影响。 相关性（参见说明）： 退伍军人在老龄化人口中占相当大的比例;了解他们的军事影响 经验，特别是部署到战斗中，将增强我们对其长期影响的认识， 老年人的健康和福祉。虽然这些知识对于理解当前的老龄化群体是有用的， 退伍军人，它也将有助于规划“新的”退伍军人的OIF/OEF，因为他们的年龄在未来 年

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.