Author: Jennifer Kavanagh
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: applicability, military, literature, review, performance, stress
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833038303
ISBN-13: 9780833038302

There are many stressors associated with military life, particularly with deployments, and it is important to understand how such stressors affect individual functioning and performance. This report reviews literature on how stress affects performance generally and applies the most relevant findings to military operations and training. While some literature suggests a negative linear relationship between stress and performance, other literature implies that performance may in fact be optimal at moderate levels of stress. This is in contrast to low levels of stress, in which activation and aler

Author: Todd C. Helmus Russell W. Glenn
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implications, urban, warfare, reactions, stress, mind, combat, steeling
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833037021
ISBN-13: 9780833037022

Combat stress casualties are not necessarily higher in city operations than operations on other types of terrain. Commanders and NCOs in the U.S. military should develop the necessary skills to treat and prevent stress casualties and understand their implications for urban operations. Consequently, the authors provide an overview of combat stress reaction (CSR) in the form of a review of its known precipitants, its battlefield treatment, and the preventive steps commanders can take to limit its extent and severity. In addition, to enhance the understanding of the risks that urban operations

Author: Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: stress, uncertainty, times, force, war, managing, america
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833039806
ISBN-13: 9780833039804

For more than three decades, the United States has relied on an all-volunteer force to meet its military needs. Today, the sustainability of that force is being tested with high levels of deployment and subsequent

Authors:Lisa H. Jaycox, Audra Langley, Kristin L. Dean
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sset, program, trauma, exposed, students, support
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047329
ISBN-13: 9780833047328

Exposure to community and interpersonal violence is a public health crisis that adversely affects many children in American communities. After witnessing or experiencing trauma, many children experience symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression, behavioral problems, substance abuse, and poor school performance. The Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) program is a series of ten lessons whose structured approach aims to reduce distress resulting from exposure to trauma. Designed to be implemented by teachers or school counselors in groups of 8

Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: Intl Monetary Fund
Keywords: stress, downturns, recoveries, financial, october, economic, outlook, world
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2008-10-31
ISBN-10: 1589067584
ISBN-13: 9781589067585

"The World Economic Outlook" ("WEO") presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries. It focuses on major economic policy issues as well as on the analysis of economic developments and prospects. It is usually prepared twice a year, as documentation for meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, and forms the main instrument of the IMF’s global surveillance activities.

Author: Benjamin R. Karney John S. Crown
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: marriage, divorce, military, research, theory, stress, assessment, data, families
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041452
ISBN-13: 9780833041456

Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage. The results generally run counter to expectations. Although rates of marital dissolution have increased since 2001 for most services and components, they had declined in the five years prior to 2001. As a r

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: health, care, primary, report, world
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2008-12-01
ISBN-10: 9241563737
ISBN-13: 9789241563734

As nations seek to strengthen their health systems, they are increasingly looking to primary health care (PHC) to provide a clear and comprehensive sense of direction. The World Health Report 2008 analyzes how primary health care reforms, that embody the principles of universal access, equity and social justice, are an essential response to the health challenges of a rapidly changing world and the growing expectations of countries and their citizens for health and health care.The Report identifies four interlocking sets of PHC reforms that aim to: achieve universal access and social protection