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Study of the effect of different causes of disability and early retirement in air force personnel between 1992-2003
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B Montazeri *   , AH Razavi , A Mardani , M Panjehband , B Shamshiri |
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Abstract: (15766 Views) |
Background: Manpower is one of the most important assets in every
organization especially in military forces. There is an association
between personnel's well being and the productivity of every
organization. Disability is one of the most important health,
economic, social and political concerns in every society and military
forces that requires resources and medical care and will result in
loss of active duty time. According to studies the most common
causes of disability are cardiovascular, psychiatric and musculo
skeletal diseases.
Materials and methods: In this retrospeative study, information related to air
force personnel that were retired due to medical reasons between
1992-2003 was gathered and analyzed by the SPSS software.
Results: A total of 1931 personnel were retired early in those 11 years
due to medical reasons. The most common causes of disability
among them being: 1. Cardiovascular (38.3%) 2. Neurosurgeries
(17.9%) 3. Gastrointestinal (7.9%) 4. Ophthalmologic (7.1%) 5.
Psychiatric (4.9%).
Conclusion: With cardiovascular diseases being the most common
cause of disability its important to improve personnel's general
knowledge about coronary artery disease, risk factors and
preventive measures to reduce the incidence of this disease and
associated disability.
Psychiatric diseases were associated with most of the active duty
time loss and therefore it's important to perform psychiatric
evaluation even before starting of the military service. |
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| Keywords: Disabilitary, Active duty Time |
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Type of Study: Original |
Received: 2012/03/6 | Accepted: 2014/06/3 | Published: 2014/06/3
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