Life and Death in the US Army
- 7 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 264 (17), 2241-2244
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03450170089028
Abstract
Using standardized mortality ratios, this study compares the sex- and race-specific, age-adjusted death rates for all US Army soldiers with those for the entire US population. Results show that soldiers are currently dying at a rate that is only half that of their civilian counterparts. The most striking difference in death rates by cause is a markedly lower homicide death rate for Army black men; homicides among the civilian black male population are 12 times more frequent than in the Army. Some factors that might account for these lower mortality rates in the Army are discussed. (JAMA. 1990;264:2241-2244)Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- COMPONENTS AND MODIFIERS OF THE HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT: EVIDENCE FROM THREE OCCUPATIONAL COHORTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL COMPENSATIONAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, 1988
- Models of the healthy worker effect in industrial cohortsStatistics in Medicine, 1987
- Some observations on the healthy worker effect.Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1987
- Mortality among female employees of a chemical companyAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1987
- Observations on the Healthy Worker EffectJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1986
- Long‐term mortality study of oil refinery workers: V. Comparison of workers hired before, during, and after world war ii (1940–1945) with a discussion of the impact of study designs on cohort resultsAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1986
- Mortality of a municipal worker cohort: II. FemalesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1986
- Mortality of a municipal worker cohort: I. MalesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1985
- Selection and mortality differentials.Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1982
- Healthy worker effect in the total Finnish population.Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1980