[PDF] Va Health Care Overview eBook

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309466601

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Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.

Author : Phillip Longman
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1609945816

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Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA's example.

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Publisher :
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Veterans
ISBN :

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This guide is designed to provide Veterans and their families with the information they need to understand VA's health care system -- eligibility requirements, the health benefits and services available to help Veterans, and copays that certain Veterans may be charged.

Author : Veterans Health Administration Chief Business Office
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2016-11-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780160935091

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This guide is designed to provide Veterans and their families with the information they need to understand VA's health care system - eligibility requirements, health benefits and services available to help Veterans and copayments that certain Veterans may be charged. Updated Topics and Benefits: Stay Connected with VA p. 2 Combat Veterans can Apply for Enrollment by Telephone p. 3 Seamless Care for Traveling Veterans p. 7 Enrolled, but Later Determined Ineligible p. 15 Free Transportation to VA Appointments p. 33 Audience: Military veterans and their families seeking to use the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system and learn more about how it works, with contact information for a variety of VA health care services. Related products: Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors 2016 iis available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/051-000-00258-0 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 38, Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief, Pt. 0-17, Revised as of July 1, 2016 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/869-084-00145-6 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 38, Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief, Pt. 18-End, Revised as of July 1, 2016 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/869-084-00146-4

Author : Suzanne Gordon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501730843

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U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country—one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media. In Wounds of War, Suzanne Gordon draws on five years of observational research to describe how the VHA does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working model for higher-quality health care and a much-needed alternative to the practice of for-profit medicine.

Author : U. S. Department U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
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ISBN : 9781499689723

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This guide is designed to provide Veterans and their families with the information they need to understand VA's health care system - eligibility requirements, the health benefits and services available to help Veterans and copays that certain Veterans may be charged.