Maclean Alair, Edwards Ryan D
Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA.
Armed Forces Soc. 2010 Oct 1;36(5):765-785. doi: 10.1177/0095327X09356166.
The following article tests the hypothesis that veterans have better health if they were officers when they were in the U.S. military than if they served in the enlisted ranks. It examines this hypothesis by presenting results from logistic regressions that are based on four surveys: the National Survey of Veterans, the Survey of Retired Military, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In all four of these surveys, the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that military rank is associated with health, particularly among veterans who served longer. It also suggests that the health gradient by rank is independent of similar gradients by education and income as well as health differences by race. These findings indicate that health may be influenced not just by differences in civilian society but also by those in the military.
在美国军队中担任军官的退伍军人比服役于士兵队伍的退伍军人健康状况更好。文章通过呈现基于四项调查的逻辑回归结果来检验这一假设,这四项调查分别是:退伍军人全国调查、退休军人调查、收入动态跟踪调查以及威斯康星纵向研究。在所有这四项调查中,证据都与军衔与健康状况相关这一假设一致,尤其是在服役时间较长的退伍军人中。研究还表明,军衔导致的健康差异独立于教育程度和收入所造成的类似差异,以及种族导致的健康差异。这些发现表明,健康状况可能不仅受到平民社会差异的影响,还受到军队中差异的影响。