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Occupational Medicine 1997;47:468-472
© 1997 Society of Occupational Medicine

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Survey of occupational health problems in an operational military environment

R. Thornton and J. Lubbock

16 Armoured Field Ambulance RAMC, Candahar Barracks, Tidworth, Hampshire SP9 7AT, UK

16 Armoured Field Ambulance provided primary and secondary medical care to British troops in Bosnia from April to October 1996. Patients presenting at both levels were reviewed and categorized into occupational illness, non-occupational disease and non-occupational injury. The results show that occupational illness was a small but significant component of primary care (8%) with non-occupational injury accounting for < 1%. In secondary care, the more serious nature of the occupational disease seen is shown in that it accounted for 38% of all admissions and 44% of the 149 patients who had to be evacuated from theatre for further treatment.

Non-occupational injury represented 8% of admissions and 13% of evacuations.

Keywords      Military personnel; occupational disease; occupational injury; sports injury

Received       13 February 1997
Accepted       12 June 1997

Correspondence and reprint requests to: Colonel R. Thornton, Surgeon General's Department, Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Room 8111, Whitehall, London SW1 2HW, UK. Tel: (+44) 171 8078761; Fax: (+44) 171 8078834; email: 100623.2525{at}compuserve.com


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