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Military Environmental Exposures and Mental Health

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Military service members encounter a range of occupational and environmental exposures during their military service. These exposures may affect both physical and mental health. This chapter provides an overview of military occupational and environmental exposures throughout the last decades and outlines risk communication strategies for addressing these exposure concerns.

“All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.”

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  1. War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Matthew J. Reinhard, Michelle Kennedy Prisco & Nicholas G. Lezama

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Matthew J. Reinhard & Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

  3. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Silver Spring, MD, USA

    Matthew J. Reinhard & Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

  4. Department of Psychiatry, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

  5. George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

  6. Mental Health Community Based Outpatient, Washington, DC, USA

    Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

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Reinhard, M.J., Prisco, M.K., Lezama, N.G., Ritchie, E.C. (2019). Military Environmental Exposures and Mental Health. In: Ritchie, E., Llorente, M. (eds) Veteran Psychiatry in the US. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05384-0_19

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