Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309466601
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
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.
Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309466601
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
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.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309466601
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
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.
VA health care overview
Author: United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families of military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families of military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Quality of Care in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Best Care Anywhere
Author: Phillip Longman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1609945824
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
“An outstanding book . . . documents how the VA’s system of integrative care outperforms the models used by private insurers.” —USW Blog (United Steelworkers) NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED 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. “Among the most important social policy books published in the last decade.” —Ezra Klein, The Washington Post “Read Best Care Anywhere not just to learn about one of our public health agencies that is a global star in terms of cost effective, evidence-based results, but also to learn how your own health care process can be improved by adopting the Veterans Health Administration’s methodology for transparency and patient-centered care.” —New York Journal of Books
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1609945824
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
“An outstanding book . . . documents how the VA’s system of integrative care outperforms the models used by private insurers.” —USW Blog (United Steelworkers) NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED 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. “Among the most important social policy books published in the last decade.” —Ezra Klein, The Washington Post “Read Best Care Anywhere not just to learn about one of our public health agencies that is a global star in terms of cost effective, evidence-based results, but also to learn how your own health care process can be improved by adopting the Veterans Health Administration’s methodology for transparency and patient-centered care.” —New York Journal of Books
Quality of Care Issues at a VA Healthcare System
Author: United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437921779
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The VA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. The quality of care in the veterans¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health IT, manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based medical practices. This report is an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health IT in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and health IT. The assessment also aims to improve understanding of how VHA¿s system serves its patients. That info. may prove useful as decisionmakers consider how veterans¿ health care might be affected by proposals for health care reform.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437921779
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The VA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. The quality of care in the veterans¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health IT, manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based medical practices. This report is an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health IT in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and health IT. The assessment also aims to improve understanding of how VHA¿s system serves its patients. That info. may prove useful as decisionmakers consider how veterans¿ health care might be affected by proposals for health care reform.
Quality of Care, Patient and Employee Safety, and Management Effectiveness at the Marion VA Medical Center
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher:
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Category : Medical centers
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medical centers
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309152852
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309152852
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration
Author: Allison Percy
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437922341
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
With the return of vets who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and with a much larger number of vets from earlier eras who are turning to the VA for at least a portion of their health care, the VHA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. Many have suggested that the quality of care in the vets¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health info. technology (HIT), manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based med. practices. This report provides an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health info. technology in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and HIT.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437922341
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
With the return of vets who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and with a much larger number of vets from earlier eras who are turning to the VA for at least a portion of their health care, the VHA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. Many have suggested that the quality of care in the vets¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health info. technology (HIT), manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based med. practices. This report provides an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health info. technology in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and HIT.
Quality Management at the Veterans Health Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description