Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK
Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK.
BMJ Mil Health. 2022 Feb;168(1):57-63. doi: 10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001718. Epub 2021 Mar 4.
During military service, many household costs for both married and single service personnel are subsidised, and transition can leave veterans unprepared for the financial demands of civilian life. Armed Forces organisations such as Sailor, Soldier, Air Force Association (SSAFA) play a central role in understanding the financial challenges that UK veterans face and provide an insight into the financial hardship experienced by veterans. The aim of this study was to use SSAFA beneficiary data as a proxy to identify the nature of financial benefit, the spatial distribution of financial hardship in the Scottish SSAFA beneficiary community and explore factors that might predict where those recipients are located.
Using an anonymised data set of Scottish SSAFA financial beneficiaries between 2014 and 2019, this study used a geographical methodology to identify the geospatial distribution of SSAFA benefit recipients and exploratory regression analysis to explore factors to explain where SSAFA beneficiaries are located.
Over half of benefit applicants (n=10 735) were concentrated in only 50 postcode districts, showing evidence of a clustered pattern, and modelling demonstrates association with area-level deprivation. The findings highlight strong association between older injured veterans and need for SSAFA beneficiary assistance.
The findings demonstrate that beneficiaries were statistically clustered into areas of high deprivation, experiencing similar challenges to that of the wider population in these areas. Military service injury or disability was strongly associated with areas of high SSAFA benefit use and in those areas high unemployment was also a significant factor to consider.
在服兵役期间，已婚和单身军人的许多家庭开支都得到补贴，而兵役结束后的过渡可能会使退伍军人对平民生活的经济需求毫无准备。英国武装部队组织，如水手、士兵、空军协会（SSAFA），在了解英国退伍军人所面临的经济挑战方面发挥着核心作用，并深入了解退伍军人所经历的经济困难。本研究的目的是使用 SSAFA 受助人数据作为代理，以确定经济利益的性质、苏格兰 SSAFA 受助人社区中经济困难的空间分布，并探讨可能预测这些受助人所在地的因素。
本研究使用 2014 年至 2019 年期间苏格兰 SSAFA 经济受助人的匿名数据集，使用地理方法来确定 SSAFA 受助人的地理空间分布，并进行探索性回归分析以探讨解释 SSAFA 受助人所在地的因素。
超过一半的福利申请人（n=10735）集中在仅 50 个邮政编码区，这表明存在聚类模式的证据，模型表明与区域贫困水平有关。研究结果突出表明，老年受伤退伍军人与需要 SSAFA 受助人援助之间存在很强的关联。
研究结果表明，受助人在统计学上集中在贫困程度较高的地区，这些地区与该地区更广泛人群面临着类似的挑战。军事服务中的受伤或残疾与 SSAFA 大量使用密切相关，在这些地区，高失业率也是一个需要考虑的重要因素。
