Health of Veterans—Strengths and Challenges

Jeannette E. South-Paul; Evelyn L. Lewis

doi:10.3122/jabfm.2021.02.210031

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JABFM Veterans Health Commentary References

Category	Title	Author	Location
Demographics	Veterans report	US Census Bureau	https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/veterans-report.html
	An evaluation of the effect of military service on mortality: quantifying the healthy soldier effect	McLaughlin R, Nielsen L, et al	Annals of Epidemiology, 2008, 928–36
	Doing hegemony: military, men, and constructing a hegemonic masculinity	Hinojosa R	Journal of Men's Studies, 2010, 18(2), 179–94
	Activity-limiting musculoskeletal conditions in US veterans compared to non-veterans: results from the 2013 National Health Interview Survey	Hinojosa R, Hinojosa MS	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5179052/
	2019 American Community Survey	US Census Bureau	Prepared by the National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
	Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act		https://missionact.va.gov/#; https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2372/BILLS-115s2372enr.pdf
	The meaning of health care seeking behavior and resource use among male veterans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars	Nworah U	https://twu-ir.tdl.org/handle/11274/4887
Veterans' health concerns	US military veterans' health and well-being in the first year after military service	Vogt D, Tirell FA, et al	Am J Prev Med, 2020, 58(3), 352–60
	Health and health behavior differences: US military, veteran, and civilian men	Hoerster KD, Lehavot K, et al	Am J Prev Med, 2012, 43(5), 483–9
Musculoskeletal conditions	Post-deployment pain: musculoskeletal conditions in male and female OEF/OIF veterans	Haskell SG	https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/publications/forum/aug12/aug12-4.cfm
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	Genomics of post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans	Veterans Administration (VA) Cooperative Studies Program	https://www.vacsp.research.va.gov/575-B/Main.asp
	Posttraumatic stress disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey	Kessler RC, Sonnega A, et al	Arch Gen Psych, 1995, 52, 1048–60
Military sexual trauma	Sexual harassment and assault as predictors of PTSD symptomatology among US female Persian Gulf War military personnel.	Wolfe J, Sharkansky EJ, et al	J Interpers Viol, 1998, 13(1), 40–57
	The role of sexual assault on the risk of PTSD among Gulf War veterans.	Kang H, Dalager N, et al	Ann Epidemiol, 2005, 15(3), 191–5
	Prevalence of depressive and alcohol abuse symptoms among women VA outpatients who report experiencing sexual assault while in the military	Hankin CS, Skinner KM, et al	J Trauma Stress, 1999, 12(4), 601–12
	Physical and sexual abuse among women and men with substance use disorders	Ouimette PC, Kimerling R, et al	Alcohol Treat Q, 2000, 18, 7–17
	Women veterans' experiences with domestic violence and with sexual harassment while in the military	Murdoch M, Nichol KL	Arch Fam Med, 1995, 4(5), 411–8
	Sexual assault history and suicidal behavior in a national sample of women	Ullman SE, Brecklin LR	Suicide Life Threat Behav, 2002, 32(2), 117–30
	Medical profile of women Veterans Administration outpatients who report a history of sexual assault occurring while in the military	Frayne SM, Skinner KM, Sullivan LM, et al	J Wom Health Gend Med, 1999, 8(6), 835–45,https://www.dav.org/veterans/resources/military-sexual-trauma-mst/
	Women who served in Iraq seeking mental health services: relationships between military sexual trauma, symptoms, and readjustment	Katz LS., et al	Psychological Services, 2007, 4(4), 239–249
	Evaluation of universal screening for military-related sexual trauma	Kimerling R, et al	Psychiatric Services, 2008, 59(6), 635–40
Traumatic brain injury	Understanding traumatic brain injury	VA	https://www.polytrauma.va.gov/understanding-tbi/index.asp
	Traumatic brain injury and concussion	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)	https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/severe.html
	Surveillance report of traumatic brain injury-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths—US 2014	CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019
Environmental exposures	Shaping the future of veterans' health care	McCauley L, Ramos KS	N Engl J Med, 2020, 383(19), 1801–4
	Physical and mental health status of Gulf War and Gulf era veterans	Dursa EK, Barth SK, et al	J Occupational and Environmental Med, 2016, 58(1), 41–6
	Gulf War veterans and Iraqi nerve agents at Khamisiyah: postwar hospitalization data revisited	Smith TC, Gray GC, et al	Am J Epidemiol, 2003, 158(5), 457–67