Combat Exposure
Dimension 113 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Combat Exposure measures the extent to which an expression reflects direct or indirect exposure to war-zone violence, hostile fire, and dangerous military operations. It encompasses proximity to battle, threat of injury or death, and active engagement in combat-related situations.
evidence final name · Disaster Trauma
Minimal Combat Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe violence, assault, injury, or threat in general terms without clear war-zone or combat context. The content may involve isolated traumatic events or danger cues that do not specifically indicate combat involvement.
Low Combat Exposure
Expressions activating this band reflect indirect or peripheral contact with war-related harm, such as seeing casualties, being near shootings or explosions, or referencing military-related physical danger without clear battlefield participation. The exposure is recognizable as conflict-related but not yet centered on sustained combat conditions.
Moderate Combat Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe presence in war zones, deployment settings, or nearby blasts and frightening military events. The expression indicates meaningful proximity to combat environments, even when direct enemy engagement is not explicitly stated.
High Combat Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe acute battlefield danger, including being at risk of injury or death during ambushes, overruns, near misses, or similar hostile situations. The exposure is immediate and operational, with clear personal endangerment in combat conditions.
Severe Combat Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe direct participation in combat, such as engaging the enemy, coming under enemy fire, conducting combat patrols, or serving in duties that place the person amid active war-zone casualties. The expression reflects firsthand involvement in hostile military action.
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Minimal Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse disaster trauma.
Emerging Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Unlike the band below, where disaster trauma was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse disaster trauma.
Elevated Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where disaster trauma was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect disaster trauma at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Severe Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is experienced here as direct combat exposure, reflecting armed engagement, enemy contact, and battlefield conditions. Unlike the band below, where disaster trauma was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect direct combat-related disaster trauma.