Editorial: Veterans' Health

摘要

Military operations worldwide continue to engage millions. Globally, it is estimated that as of 2014, there are 44.3 million service members, including 20.2 million active duty forces and 24.1 million reservists, who are formally engaged in an organized military service (1). In the United States, in 2014, there were 2.3 million active service members, including 1.5 million active duty military personnel and 844,000 reservists (1). Although there are no available estimates of the global population of veterans of prior military engagements, there are an estimated 22 million veterans in the United States as of 2014 (2), and there are projected to be 2.7 million veterans in Britain in 2017 (3). Military personnel and veterans face occupational and personal challenges that occasion real concern about their health, well-being, and access to health care services. The present volume of Epidemiologic Reviews aims to provide a comprehensive set of papers that tackles core issues of concern in the study of military and veterans' health. The papers in this volume span 4 core themes, with a few papers contributing to more than 1 theme.