Environmental Factors in the Onset of Illness Aboard Navy Ships.

Abstract

Physical job demands, personnel composition, and work climate were assessed for 188 divisions aboard 18 U.S. Navy destroyer-type ships. These measures were used to predict rates of respiratory illness, dermal disorders, trauma genitourinary illness, and gastrointestinal disorders during routine overseas deployments. A series of analyses of variance indicated that measures from all three of the variable domains contributed significantly to prediction of one or more types of illness. Because the interaction terms were frequently significant, it was suggested that a systems approach to the prediction of illness would be useful, and a predictive model based upon this perspective was proposed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA114346

Entities

People

  • E. K. E. Gunderson
  • W. M. Pugh

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Destroyers
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Science
  • Leadership
  • Medical Personnel
  • Navigation
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Ships
  • Systems Approach

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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