Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism Guide: Veterans
Updated by Sonya Lemke MLS, AHIP
Introduction
The purpose of this guide is to provide resources related to veterans and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Military personnel are a niche group and often encounter health issues that are different from civilians. These health issues can include physical injuries caused from combat, mental and emotional stress from factors like separation from family or serving in a different part of the world, as well as exposure to environmental contaminations like chemicals, poor water, and infections. While serving, injuries can become life-threatening, cause disabilities, or have a lasting impact on daily life. (National Library of Medicine, 2017)
Veterans Resources
The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, 1st ed. (2017)
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.
ISBN: 9781501714573
From Soldier to Physician, 1st ed. (2024)ISBN: 9798218330910
Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities, 1st ed., (2019)
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. To receive SSDI or SSI disability benefits, an individual must meet the statutory definition of disability, which is oethe inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity SGA] by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. SSA uses a five-step sequential process to determine whether an adult applicant meets this definition. Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities examines ways to collect information about an individual (TM)s physical and mental (cognitive and noncognitive) functional abilities relevant to work requirements. This report discusses the types of information that support findings of limitations in functional abilities relevant to work requirements, and provides findings and conclusions regarding the collection of information and assessment of functional abilities relevant to work requirements.
ISBN: 9780309489386
Health Care for Veterans: Background, Education, System Reform and Improvements, 1st. (2020)
The federal government's role in providing health care to the nation's veterans can be traced back to World War I. The VA provides health care and health-related services through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VHA's primary mission is to provide health care services to eligible veterans and some family members. The VHA is also statutorily required to conduct medical research, to train health care professionals, to serve as a contingency backup to the Department of Defense (DOD) medical system during a national security emergency, and to provide support to the National Disaster Medical System and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as necessary. This book provide information about veterans' health care.
ISBN: 9781536175301
Invisible Veterans: What Happens When Military Women Become Civilians Again, 1st ed. (2019)
Spotlights the challenges faced by our increasing cadre of military women when their service ends and they become civilians.Combining research with narrative, this book exposes common threads of lived experience and reviews the latest data on military women and their healthy reintegration into civilian society. Female veterans share their stories of seeking to be seen in a culture where they don't quite fit and their struggles to find community and friendship. Some fought during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as the first women in combat in American history. How and where, for example, does a female combat Marine find her tribe once she leaves the service? Through the stories of these courageous yet entirely human women, readers learn about the experiences of a new and often forgotten generation of veterans; about the challenges surrounding family and career choices that millions of American women face; and ultimately, about sacrifice, resiliency, loss, and love. This book will inform readers with an interest in female veterans and women's health and mental health issues, as well as researchers, students, and professionals working in fields encompassing women's psychology, health, and social work.
ISBN: 9781440866425
Military Mental Health Care, 1st ed. (20212)
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. Military Mental Health Care: A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the numerous mental health problems they face upon arriving stateside. Don Philpott and Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott, co-authors with Janelle Hill of the highly successful Wounded Warrior Handbook, detail not only each issue's symptoms, but also discuss what treatments are available, and the best ways for veterans to access those treatments while readjusting to civilian life. In addition, they connect and explain many alarming trends, such as joblessness, poverty and addiction, appearing in our nation's veteran population on a broader scale. PTSD and struggles with anxiety affect far more than veterans themselves, as sobering phenomena like homelessness, suicide, domestic violence and divorce too often become realities for those returning from war. Military Mental Health Care is both a resource for struggling veterans and a useful tool for their loved ones, or anyone looking for ways to support the veterans in their lives.
ISBN: 9781442220935
Occupational Stress and Well-Being in Military Contexts, 1st ed., (2018)
Volume 16 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Beingis focused on how stress and well-being shape the experiences of military personnel both in and out of the combat zone. The book examines the connections between life in or after the military and employee stress, health, and well being. Chapters in this volume include veterans' transitions into the workplace, work-family issues for military couples as well as children of parents in the military, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychopathy and emotion, the role of stress and well-being on performance in the military, resilience and stress interventions in military organizations and the use of drugs by soldiers and veterans as a coping mechanism for chronic pain. The book showcases the work of the best researchers and theorists contributing to this field to provide a multidisciplinary and international collection that gives a thorough and critical assessment of knowledge, and major gaps in knowledge, on occupational stress and well being with a view to shaping future research both in military and civilian research literatures.
ISBN: 9781787561830
What's Next for Student Veterans? 1st ed. (2017)
With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008, more than 1.4 million service members and their families became eligible for higher education benefits, and veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan enrolled in colleges and universities in record numbers. The first wave of research about these new student veterans focused primarily on describing their characteristics and the transition from military service to civilian life and the college campus. This new edited collection presents findings from the second wave of research about student veterans, with a focus on data-driven evidence of academic success factors, including persistence, retention, degree completion, and employment after college. An invaluable resource for educators poised to enter the next phase of supporting military-connected college students.
ISBN: 9781942072102
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Veterans And Military Health
("Veterans"[Mesh]) OR (veteran*[Title/Abstract]) OR ("Military Personnel"[Mesh]) OR (military[Title/Abstract]) OR "Military Health"[Mesh] OR (military health[Title/Abstract])
Current PubMed Veterans and Military Health Search Results
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- AAMC - Helping Our Nation's Veterans Medical schools and teaching hospitals have partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for over 75 years, dating back to the end of World War II. The VA is an essential part of physician training in the U.S. and the partnership between academic medicine and the VA has helped shape the way doctors are trained in this country. Approximately 70% of all U.S. physicians complete at least part of their training in VA facilities.
- ACHE Veterans The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education is proud to assist veterans, service members, and their families in accessing the education benefits they have earned through their years of service to our nation. Explore your benefit options at VA | Vets.gov, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, or call the toll-free number at 1-888-442-4551.
- Library for the Blind and Print Disabled The National Library Service (NLS) is a free library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page.
- MedlinePlus.gov Veteran's & Military Health A variety of resources for service members and veterans.
- Veterans Health Administration The Veterans Health Administration provides primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services to American veterans.
Mental Health Resources for Veterans
Veterans Crisis Line 24/7 confidential, crisis support for veterans and their loved ones.
