Scottish Veterans Health Research Group

We have published papers on the risk of the following conditions and outcomes in veterans, in comparison with people having no record of military service: 

• Acute myocardial infarction
• Alcohol misuse
• Cervical cancer
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Lymphohaematopoietic malignancies
• Mental health
• Mortality
• Motor neurone disease
• Peripheral arterial disease
• Self-harm
• Smoking-related cancer
• Suicide
• Tuberculosis

We have also published a discussion paper which examines whether ‘institutionalisation’ is an appropriate model for the difficulties which some veterans experience on return to civilian life.