The Vietnam Veterans Health Study 1997/98 (also known as the Vietnam Veterans Morbidity Study) aimed to establish a complete health picture of Vietnam Veterans and their families.

Collection details

Temporal coverage

1/5/1997 to 25/12/2000

Geographical coverage

National

Data availability

  • Publications

There are restrictions and limitations governing the availability or use of other data in this holding.

Methodology

Survey

Metadata information and data quality statement (DQS)

Study reports (location listed in External links), files and survey forms.

External links and information 

The study produced three major reports: Volume 1 and Volume 2 - no longer available online,

Volume 3 (validation) – available direct through AIHW Morbidity of Vietnam  veterans: a study of the health of Australia's Vietnam veteran  community 

The Vietnam Veterans Health Study also gave rise to a number of supplementary reports:

Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: Supplementary Report 1 A report of the investigation into suicide in Vietnam Veterans' children:

Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: Supplementary Report 2 (Revised Edition) 

A report into the prevalence of adrenal gland cancer, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Vietnam Veterans.

Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: Supplementary Report 3 A report into the prevalence of multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease in Vietnam Veterans.

Contact

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