Lifespan outcomes of military service

描述（由申请人提供）：兵役对整个生命周期的健康和福祉的多个方面产生深远的影响。虽然退伍军人被选为身体健康，兵役赋予一些积极的好处，它也可以有短期和长期的负面影响。迫切需要采取综合、多学科的办法，以了解在整个生命周期中服兵役的风险和保护方面之间的动态相互作用。 我们的目标是推进一种寿命方法来研究兵役对晚年生活结果的长期影响（即，健康、福利、社会和经济状况）。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了四个目标：1。建立一个全国学者网络，研究服兵役的寿命结果。我们将利用波士顿大学和弗吉尼亚州波士顿的现有资源，以及我们与俄勒冈州州立大学团队成员的持续合作。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.建立一个网上信息资源，以促进对国家数据库的访问和综合利用。 3.使用本资源中描述的数据进行综合研究，开发和测试兵役长期结果的寿命模型，使用最先进的统计方法分析纵向数据4。通过研讨会、虚拟会议以及老龄化和兵役全国会议等方式，促进采用寿命视角的新研究。作为我们正在进行的活动的一部分，我们将通过一个公共访问网站传播我们开发的信息资源;介绍和发表我们的研究结果;并开发下一代学者解决兵役对健康和福祉的寿命影响。 公共卫生相关性：退伍军人在老龄化人口中占相当大的比例;了解他们的军事经验的影响，特别是部署到战斗中，将增强我们对他们对老龄化健康和福祉的长期影响的了解。虽然这些知识对于了解当前的老龄退伍军人群体很有用，但对于规划OIF/OEF的“新”退伍军人在未来几年的老龄化也很有用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 risk< 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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: 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.