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Epidemiology is the study of health in populations. As a scientific discipline it serves both the public and medicine through “the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states, and the application of this knowledge to control the health problems.”*
Researchers at the Environmental Epidemiology Service study the health of Veterans, either at one point in time or over a period of time. Usually our studies focus on the Veterans of a single conflict period and make comparisons among those who have had different experiences. Learn about our research studies.
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We do not accept volunteers in our research studies. Since it is not possible for us to study all Veterans, we choose a sample from a population to join our research studies. Participants are randomly selected so that each participant can serve as a representative for other similar people that we can not include in a study.
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VA provides a wide variety of health care services and non-health care benefits.
For health care services
For non-health care benefits, including disability benefits
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf: 1-800-829-4833
Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-TALK (8255), Press 1
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Morbidity is “any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological or psychological well-being.” Any illness or sickness can be considered a morbid condition; morbidity is a measure of illness.*
*Porta M: A Dictionary of Epidemiology, ed 5. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.
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