The Journal of Women & Aging is seeking papers for a special issue about female veterans – with articles that focus on any aspect of female veterans’ health and well-being (emotional, cognitive, physical, etc.) as a function of their military service and other social determinants of health, such as their social relationships, socio-economic status, race and ethnicity, sociocultural context etc. This special issue is planned for a Spring 2024 volume of the journal. Original research articles using various methodological approaches (qualitative, quantitative, mixed), as well as brief reports/commentaries, secondary data analyses, and systematic/scoping reviews are invited. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: long-term effects of military service, a focus on physical and mental health outcomes, links between social relationships and health/well-being, cross-cultural and other subgroup comparisons (e.g., age differences, cohort differences, differences by racial or ethnic minority status). Special consideration will be given to studies that include longitudinal data and utilize a lifespan-developmental perspective.
