Military health care : from pre-deployment to post-separation / / edited by Jomana Amara and Ann M. Hendricks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464884403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-74232-8; 0-203-56849-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Collana: Cass Military Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): AmaraJomana <1961->; HendricksAnn M. <1947->
• Disciplina: 355.3/450973
• Soggetti: Veterans - Medical care - United States; Medicine, Military - United States; Electronic books.; United States Armed Forces Medical care
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Military Health Care: From pre-deployment to post-separation""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""PART I Overview""; ""1 Survey of military medical care from pre-deployment to post-separation""; ""2 OEF/OIF demographics compared with previous cohorts: Implications for medical care""; ""3 Health care and insurance for US military service members: Active duty, national guard, reserve, veterans, and retired""; ""PART II Pre-deployment""; ""4 Pre-deployment medical policy development: Perspectives from the experience of US Central Command""""5 The Millennium Cohort Study: Answering long-term health concerns of US military service members by integrating longitudinal survey data with military health system records""; ""6 Screening for mental illness in the armed forces""; ""7 Ongoing efforts to address the public health problem of military suicide within the United States Department of Defense""; ""PART III Deployment""; ""8 Far forward medical care for US service members""; ""9 Evolution in optimal use of Navy hospital ships""; ""PART IV Post-deployment""""10 The history and evolution of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation in military service members and veterans in the United States""; ""11 Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury: DoDâ€?s response to psychological health (PH) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)""; ""12 Department of Veterans Affairs response to risk of suicide for veterans""; ""13 An overview of toxicant exposures in veteran cohorts from Vietnam to Iraq""; ""14 VHA health care in response to a new generation of female veterans""; ""15 Health, aging, and the post-service life cycles of US veterans""""16 Veteran care at the end of life: Their last battle""; ""Index""