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Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 467 pages

File Size : 49,21 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.



Realizing the Future of Nursing

Author : Cathy Rick

Publisher : Government Printing Office

Page : 910 pages

File Size : 32,1 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Leadership

ISBN : 9780160928864

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Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administrationâ¬"Resource Planning and Methodology for the Future

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 49 pages

File Size : 29,3 MB

Release : 2019-08-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0309493021

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was tasked by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to prepare a comprehensive resource planning and staffing methodology guidebook for VHA Facility Management (Engineering) Programs. The resource and staffing methodology must take into account all significant parameters and variables involved in the VHA Engineering Programs. The methodology should yield customized outputs based on site-specific input data, to enable specification of the optimal budget and staffing levels for each site. Currently, the VHA does not utilize a staffing model for defining its facilities workforce. Each medical center defines its required facilities staffing. This interim report focuses on the types, availability, usage, and limitations of models in the staffing processes.



The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare

Author : Suzanne Gordon

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 48,74 MB

Release : 2017-04-04

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1501714562

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In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage. Gordon’s collected dispatches provide insight and information too often missing from mainstream media reporting on the VHA and from Capitol Hill debates about its future. Drawing on interviews with veterans and their families, VHA staff and administrators, health care policy experts and Congressional decision makers, Gordon describes a federal agency under siege that nevertheless accomplishes its difficult mission of serving men and women injured, in myriad ways, while on active duty. The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare is an essential primer on VHA care and a call to action by veterans, their advocacy organizations, and political allies. Without lobbying efforts and broader public understanding of what’s at stake, a system now functioning far better than most private hospital systems may end up looking more like them, to the detriment of patients and providers alike.



Wounds of War

Author : Suzanne Gordon

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 11,86 MB

Release : 2018-10-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1501730843

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Best Care Anywhere

Author : Phillip Longman

Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 20,68 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.



Task Force Report to the President

Author : United States. Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes

Publisher :

Page : 136 pages

File Size : 34,74 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Medical care

ISBN :

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Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans

Author : Jack Tsai

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 40,40 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0190695137

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The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.