Mortality among United Kingdom servicemen who served abroad in the 1950s and 1960s.

Journal article

The Registrar General's decennial supplements on occupational mortality provide only limited information on mortality in the armed forces in the United Kingdom. Mortality has therefore been studied among a group of 30,619 United Kingdom servicemen who served abroad in tropical or desert areas in the 1950s and 1960s, and who remained in the services for a total of at least five years. Mortality from all causes of death, all neoplasms, and all other known non-violent causes was lower than that ...

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Authors: Darby, S; Muirhead, C; Doll, R; Kendall, G; Thakrar, B

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: British journal of industrial medicine
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 793-804
• Publication date: 1990-12-01
• ISSN: 0007-1072
• Language: English
• Keywords: Humans; Accidents; Alcohol Drinking; Smoking; Great Britain; Male; Cause of Death; Military Personnel; Violence; Mortality; Neoplasms