Browsing by Author "Hannukkala, Samu"

In recent international military operations war has traumatised and caused mental health problems to a massive amount of soldiers. Psychiatric symptoms often emerge during service and its not uncommon to evacuate these psychiatric patients prematurely. According to this literary review approximately every two hundredth soldier has been evacuated prematurely due to psychiatric reasons. However, approximately every fifth soldier is in immediate need of mental health services. Young soldiers have significantly greater risk for evacuation. According to this literary review its possible to prevent mental health problems and psychiatric evacuations in military operations.