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Effects of Physical and Social Environments on the Health and Well-Being of Antarctic Winter-Over Personnel

Lawrence A. Palinkas

Division of Family Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego

This article examines the influence of physical and social environmental stressors on the short-term and long-term health and well-being of 358 enlisted U.S. Navy personnel who wintered-over in Antarctica between 1964 and 1974. Station size and severity of physical environment were significantly inversely associated with symptomatology of the winter-over syndrome. These characteristics of station environments were also significantly inversely associated with subsequent risk of total first hospital admissions relative to a group of 2,396 enlisted Navy men who volunteered for winter-over duty and were evaluated as medically and psychologically qualified for such duty but who were assigned elsewhere. The results suggest that adaptation to extreme social and physical environments may provide long-term health benefits for certain individuals.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 6, 782-799 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916591236008
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