Contrasting the Impacts of Combat and Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief Missions on the Mental Health of Military Service Members
| Autor: | Yu-Chu Shen, Zachary R. Burke, Jesse M. Cunha |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Business & Public Policy (GSBPP) |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
medicine.medical_specialty Engineering Active duty Military service Deployment Disaster relief 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Military 0502 economics and business medicine Humanitarian aid 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Psychiatry Emergency management business.industry 05 social sciences Hazard Mental health Suicide Software deployment business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Defence and Peace Economics. 29:62-77 |
| ISSN: | 1476-8267 1024-2694 |
| Popis: | The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2017.1349365 We study the differential impacts of combat and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) missions on the mental health of U.S. Marine Corps members. The deployment experiences of any individual Marine are plausibly random conditional on the observable characteristics which are used to assign Marines into units. Leveraging this exogenous variation, we compare the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide deaths among Marines who deployed to either Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) or HA/DR missions between 2001 and 2011. We find that the hazard of PTSD is close to eight times higher among Marines returning from OEF/OIF compared to those never deployed, and just 1.33 times higher among those returning from HA/DR (and never participated in OEF/OIF). Those returning from OEF/OIF missions are 1.81 times more likely than those never deployed to die by suicide when they were still active duty, and the hazard increases to almost 3 after they have left the military. In contrast, we find no difference in the hazards of suicide death between those that deployed to only HA/DR missions and non-deployed Marines. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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