| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 179 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Summary -- Introduction -- Background -- Annex brief descriptions of shad tests -- Data and methods for the SHAD II study -- The mortality experience of SHAD veterans -- Morbidity results -- Discussion -- Appendix A: Committee and consultant biographies -- Appendix B: Agendas for information-gathering meetings -- Appendix C: Review of literature on known project SHAD agents, simulants, tracers, and decontaminants -- Appendix D: Additional information on data and methods used for analysis -- Appendix E: Units participating in project shad tests and units selected as unexposed comparisons -- Appendix F: Diagnostic codes used to define health outcomes. |
| Summary |
"Between 1963 and 1969, the U.S. military carried out a series of tests, termed Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), to evaluate the vulnerabilities of U.S. Navy ships to chemical and biological warfare agents. These tests involved use of active chemical and biological agents, stimulants, tracers, and decontaminants. Approximately 5,900 military personnel, primarily from the Navy and Marine Corps, are reported to have been included in Project SHAD testing. In the 1990s some veterans who participated in the SHAD tests expressed concerns to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that they were experiencing health problems that might be the result of exposures in the testing. These concerns led to a 2002 request from VA to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to carry out an epidemiological study of the health of SHAD veterans and a comparison population of veterans who had served on similar ships or in similar units during the same time period. In response to continuing concerns, Congress in 2010 requested an additional IOM study. This second study expands on the previous IOM work by making use of additional years of follow up and some analysis of diagnostic data from Medicare and the VA health care system"--Publisher's description. |
| Funding |
Supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs, with additional support from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine VA241-P-2024 2 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Project SHAD (U.S.)
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Project SHAD (U.S.) |
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Veterans -- Health risk assessment.
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Veterans -- Health risk assessment. |
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Veterans. |
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Biological weapons -- Toxicology.
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Biological weapons. |
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Toxicology. |
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Chemical agents (Munitions) -- Toxicology.
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Chemical agents (Munitions) -- Toxicology. |
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Chemical agents (Munitions) |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Technical reports.
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Technical reports.
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| Added Author |
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on the Health of Select Populations, issuing body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Shipboard Hazard and Defense II (SHAD II). Assessing health outcomes among veterans of Project SHAD. Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2016] 9780309380713 (OCoLC)938678481 |
| ISBN |
9780309380720 (electronic book) |
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0309380723 (electronic book) |
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9780309380713 (paperback) |
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0309380715 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.17226/21846 |
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