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Gender Differences In Load Carriage Injuries Of Australian Army Soldiers, Rob Orr, Rodney Pope
Gender Differences In Load Carriage Injuries Of Australian Army Soldiers, Rob Orr, Rodney Pope
Rob Marc Orr
Background
With the removal of gender restrictions and the changing nature of warfare potentially increasing female soldier exposure to heavy military load carriage, the aim of this research was to determine relative risks and patterns of load carriage related injuries in female compared to male soldiers.
Methods
The Australian Defence Force Occupational Health, Safety and Compensation Analysis and Reporting workplace injury database was searched to identify all reported load carriage injuries. Using key search terms, the narrative description fields were used as the search medium to identify records of interest. Population estimates of the female: male incident rate ratio (IRR) …