Mortality study 2003: Australian veterans of the Korean War

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Publication table of contents

• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Definitions
  • Korean war veterans
  • 'Allotted for duty' and 'operational service'
• Tours and visits
• Executive summary
  • Identifying deaths amongst veterans
  • Number of veteran deaths studied
  • Findings
    • Cancer mortality
    • Effect of nature of service
  • Strengths and weaknesses of the study
  • Conclusion
  • Recommendations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Korean war veterans mortality study
  • 1.2 Influences on mortality
  • 1.3 Report structure
• Chapter 2 Australia's involvement in Korea
  • 2.1        Korean geography and climate
  • 2.2        Korean war
  • 2.3        Australian involvement
  • 2.4        Definitions: 'allotted for duty' and 'operational service'
  • 2.5        Operational area
  • 2.6        Health and environmental threats
• Chapter  3 The nominal roll of Australian veterans of the Korean war
  • 3.1 Sources of data
  • 3.2 Completeness of the nominal roll
  • 3.3 Accuracy of data
  • 3.4 Total number of veterans
• Chapter  4 Characteristics of the study cohort
  • 4.1        Birth year distribution of veterans
  • 4.2        Age at first service in Korea
  • 4.3        Nature of service in Korea
  • 4.4        Involvement in other conflicts
  • 4.5        Summary
• Chapter  5 Data sources, methods and limitations
  • 5.1        Sources of data on vital status
  • 5.2        Quality of Korean war nominal roll
  • 5.3        Record linkage between the nominal roll and selected data sources
  • 5.4        Results of the matching process
  • 5.5        Summary and discussion on determination of vital status
  • 5.6        Statistical methods
  • 5.7        Statistical power
  • 5.8        Smoking prevalence
  • 5.9        Statistical software used
• Chapter  6 Results
  • 6.1        Overview of analysis
  • 6.2        Deaths from diseases of a priori interest
  • 6.3        Mortality of Korean war veterans
  • 6.4        Mortality by branch of service
  • 6.5        Neoplasms
  • 6.6        Effect of service in Korea
  • 6.7        Summary
• Chapter  7 Discussion of mortality findings
  • 7.1        Consideration of study design
  • 7.2        Factors influencing mortality
  • 7.3        Discussion of causes of death of a priori interest
  • 7.4        Discussion of specific causes of death
  • 7.5        Possible exposures that could contribute to the elevation in mortality among Korean war veterans
• Chapter  8 Summary, conclusions and recommendations
  • 8.1        Summary of findings
  • 8.2        Conclusions
  • 8.3        Recommendations
• Appendices:
  • Appendix A:   Protocol for a retrospective study of mortality of Korean veterans
  • Appendix B:   Review of the literature on the health of Korean veterans
  • Appendix C:   Australian and other United Nations forces in Korea
  • Appendix D:   Tables of results
  • Appendix E:     Location of surviving Korean veterans
  • Appendix F:     Membership of the consultative committee
  • Appendix G:   Membership of the study scientific advisory committee
  • Appendix H:   Project staff