Teichman Occupational Health Associates, 4 Forest Drive, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA.
J Occup Environ Med. 2012 Jun;54(6):677-81. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318259c1ce.
There is a long history of Veterans returning from war with concerns regarding environmental hazards that they may have experienced while in theater. The author describes some of the tools in place within the Department of Defense to capture the frequency and nature of exposure concerns of returning troops. This article then reviews the exposures of concern to Service members returning from military service in the current and recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The author then presents some of the recent published literature on these concerns. To address these exposure concerns of Veterans, there is then a brief discussion of a new program being put in place at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
退伍军人从战场返回后，往往会对他们在战区可能经历的环境危害表示担忧，这种情况由来已久。作者描述了国防部内部用于捕捉返回部队人员的接触频率和性质的一些工具。本文接着回顾了在阿富汗和伊拉克最近冲突中服役的军人返回后的一些关注暴露问题。然后，作者介绍了一些关于这些问题的最新文献。为了解决退伍军人的这些接触问题，作者简要讨论了退伍军人事务部正在实施的一个新项目。
