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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 : 37,69 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.



Future Structure of Veterans Health Care

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care

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Page : 72 pages

File Size : 19,76 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Disabled veterans

ISBN :

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Realizing the Future of Nursing

Author : Cathy Rick

Publisher : Government Printing Office

Page : 910 pages

File Size : 16,91 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Leadership

ISBN : 9780160928864

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Transforming Organizations

Author : Mark A. Abramson

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 41,25 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780742513150

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Transforming Organizations provides in-depth case studies of outstanding government executives who dramatically changed both the performance and management of their organizations. The book includes case studies of Dan Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ken Kizer of the Veterans Health Administration, James Lee Witt of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and four high-ranking government officials who changed procurement in the Department of Defense. In addition, the book includes interviews with NASA Administrator Goldin and FEMA's Director Witt. The volume also includes an essay by Ken Kizer on his experience transforming the Veterans Health Administration. From these case studies, Mark A. Abramson and Paul R. Lawrence develop eight lessons that all executives can learn from in transforming their organization: select the right person, involve key players, engage employees, and persevere.



The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare

Author : Suzanne Gordon

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 19,40 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.



Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans

Author : Jack Tsai

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 20,4 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.