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Military and veteran health behavior research and practice: challenges and opportunities

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Abstract

There are 2.1 million current military servicemembers and 21 million living veterans in the United States. Although they were healthier upon entering military service compared to the general U.S. population, in the longer term veterans tend to be of equivalent or worse health than civilians. One primary explanation for the veterans’ health disparity is poorer health behaviors during or after military service, especially areas of physical activity, nutrition, tobacco, and alcohol. In response, the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs continue to develop, evaluate, and improve health promotion programs and healthcare services for military and veteran health behavior in an integrated approach. Future research and practice is needed to better understand and promote positive health behavior during key transition periods in the military and veteran life course. Also paramount is implementation and evaluation of existing interventions, programs, and policies across the population using an integrated and person centered approach.

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Beyond the author list, we thank the contribution of our many members and associates of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and its Military and Veterans’ Health Special Interest Group. Gerald Talcott and Michael Goldstein were the senior authors providing oversight on the development of this article, having esteemed backgrounds with DoD, VA, and SBM (as assessed and valued by coauthors of this article). The contents of this article do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense, or the United States Government. This article was further written with readability in mind for a broad audience; as such, we greatly limited the use of typical VA/DoD acronyms, capitalizations, and hyphenations in alignment with APA style.

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  1. Health Services Research and Development Service, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW (10P9H), Washington, DC, 20420, USA

    Jeffrey P. Haibach & Amy M. Kilbourne

  2. U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA

    Michael Ann Haibach

  3. Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Katherine S. Hall

  4. Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Katherine S. Hall

  5. VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA

    Robin M. Masheb

  6. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Robin M. Masheb

  7. Center for Population Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Melissa A. Little & Gerald W. Talcott

  8. VA Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Robyn L. Shepardson & Jennifer S. Funderburk

  9. Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Robyn L. Shepardson & Jennifer S. Funderburk

  10. Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, Deployment Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Anne C. Dobmeyer

  11. Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Jennifer S. Funderburk

  12. Patient-Centered Medical Home Branch, Clinical Support Division, Defense Health Agency, Washington, DC, USA

    Christopher L. Hunter

  13. National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Durham, NC, USA

    Margaret Dundon & Michael G. Goldstein

  14. Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Leslie R.M. Hausmann

  15. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Leslie R.M. Hausmann

  16. Office of Academic Affiliations, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA

    Stephen K. Trynosky

  17. Medical Service Corps, U.S. Army Reserve, Washington, DC, USA

    Stephen K. Trynosky

  18. Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    David E. Goodrich

  19. Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Amy M. Kilbourne

  20. Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Sara J. Knight

  21. Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Sara J. Knight

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The original version of this article was revised: The last name of Michael Ann Glotfelter is now changed to Michael Ann Haibach, and the affiliation for her should read as U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA.

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Haibach, J.P., Haibach, M.A., Hall, K.S. et al. Military and veteran health behavior research and practice: challenges and opportunities. J Behav Med 40, 175–193 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-016-9794-y

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