US veterans' use of VA mental health services and disability compensation increased from 2001 to 2010

J Tsai, RA Rosenheck - Health Affairs, 2016 - healthaffairs.org
There has been concern about the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
health care system to provide care for veterans returning from war zones in the Middle East …

Prevalence of mental health problems among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have and have not received VA services

CA Vaughan, TL Schell, T Tanielian… - Psychiatric …, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Roughly half of veterans who served in Operation Enduring Freedom and
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) have not received services from the Veterans Health …

Health care utilization behavior of veterans who deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq

S Lee, VP Fonseca, CL Wolters, DD Dougherty… - Military …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Background: Previous assessments of Afghanistan/Iraq Veterans have lacked a
systematic overview of all injury and illness experiences captured by the Veterans Health …

Demographic, military, and health characteristics of VA health care users and nonusers who served in or during Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi …

EK Dursa, SK Barth, RM Bossarte… - Public Health …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
An estimated 60% of all Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF)
veterans who have left the military had used the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for …

Use of outpatient care in VA and Medicare among disability-eligible and age-eligible veteran patients

CF Liu, CL Bryson, JF Burgess, N Sharp… - BMC Health Services …, 2012 - Springer
Background More than half of veterans who use Veterans Health Administration (VA) care
are also eligible for Medicare via disability or age, but no prior studies have examined …

Use of health services among post-9/11 veterans with mental health conditions within 90 days of separation from the military

KR Aronson, DF Perkins, NR Morgan… - Psychiatric …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The Veterans Metrics Initiative is a longitudinal survey study examining the
military-to-civilian transition of a cohort of new post-9/11 veterans. This study identified the …

Veteran mental health services in the UK: are we headed in the right direction?

D Macmanus, S Wessely - Journal of Mental Health, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Approximately 10% of the UK Armed Forces, equivalent to 20 000 service personnel, leave
the military each year (DASA, 2007). For most individuals, service in the Armed Forces is …

Access to the US Department of Veterans Affairs health system: self-reported barriers to care among returnees of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom

CA Elnitsky, EM Andresen, ME Clark… - BMC health services …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implemented the
Polytrauma System of Care to meet the health care needs of military and veterans with …

The burden of illness in the first year home: Do male and female VA users differ in health conditions and healthcare utilization

SG Haskell, K Mattocks, JL Goulet, EE Krebs… - Women's Health …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: We sought to describe gender differences in medical and mental health
conditions and health care utilization among veterans who used Veterans Health …

Barriers to the use of Veterans Affairs health care services among female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

AR Newins, SM Wilson, TA Hopkins… - Psychological …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
The study investigated barriers to the utilization of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care services
among female veterans who served in served in Iraq and Afghanistan, including reasons for …