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Addressing Veteran Homelessness to Prevent Veteran Suicides [PDF]

Psychiatric Services, 2018
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is shifting its focus from ending veteran homelessness to preventing veteran suicides. With supporting data, this Open Forum argues that VA homelessness services also help address veteran suicides. Analysis of a nationally representative survey of U.S.
Jack, Tsai, Louis, Trevisan, Minda, Huang, Robert H, Pietrzak   +3 more
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Homeless Veterans: It Takes a Community

Journal of Veterans Studies, 2020
Veterans’ Voices is a unique space for the contributions of veterans, active military, and military family members to voice their perspectives and experiences with areas of military or veteran life of interest to Journal of Veterans Studies readership ...
Joseph M. Moranda
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Medical Cannabis Use Among Canadian Veterans and Non-Veterans: A National Survey

Integrative Medicine Reports, 2023
Background: Medical cannabis (MC) is used by Canadian Veterans to manage a wide range of health issues. However, there is little information comparing the reasons for MC use and its perceived effectiveness between Veterans and non-Veterans.
Gunel Valikhanova, Yuka Kato, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Mark Ware, Deborah Da Costa, Ilka Lowensteyn, Ho Sum Cheung, Steven Grover   +7 more
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Reducing barriers to post-9/11 veterans’ use of programs and services as they transition to civilian life

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Numerous programs exist to support veterans in their transitions to civilian life. Programs are offered by a host of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. Veterans report encountering many barriers to program participation.
Nicole R. Morgan, Keith R. Aronson, Daniel F. Perkins, Julia A. Bleser, Katie Davenport, Dawne Vogt, Laurel A. Copeland, Erin P. Finley, Cynthia L. Gilman   +8 more
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Changes in characteristics of veterans using the VHA health care system between 1996 and 1999

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2005
Background The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides a health care safety net to veterans. This study examined changes in characteristics of veterans using the VHA health care system between 1996 and 1999 when VHA ...
Maciejewski Matthew L, Liu Chuan-Fen, Sales Anne EB   +2 more
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The "trauma pitch": How stigma emerges for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking disability compensation.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder continues to be a highly stigmatized disease for the veteran population and stigma, experienced as a mark of discredit or shame, continues to be identified as the main deterrent in treatment seeking.
Katinka Hooyer
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Women Veterans’ experiences discussing household firearms with their intimate partners: collaborative, devalued, and deferential relational types

Injury Epidemiology, 2023
Background Rates of firearm suicide have increased among women Veterans. Discussing firearm access and reducing access to lethal means of suicide when suicide risk is heightened are central tenets of suicide prevention, as is tailoring suicide prevention
Evan R. Polzer, Carly M. Rohs, Suzanne M. Thomas, Ryan Holliday, Christin N. Miller, Joseph A. Simonetti, Katherine M. Iverson, Lisa A. Brenner, Lindsey L. Monteith   +8 more
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Incorporation of Student Pharmacists into a Proton Pump Inhibitor Deprescribing Telehealth Program for Rural Veterans

INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2022
Background: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are among the most widely prescribed class of medications in the United States. Although effective in the treatment of acid related disease, inappropriate PPI use is prevalent, and long-term PPI use has been ...
Sonia Bhardwaj, Stephanie Garvin, Sierra Kuehl, Johanna Van Epps, Frederick Dunkerson, Molly Lehmann, Stephanie Gruber, Mara Kieser, Qianqian Zhao, Edward Christopher Portillo   +9 more
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Whole Health Use and Interest Across Veterans With Co-Occurring Chronic Pain and PTSD: An Examination of the 18 VA Medical Center Flagship Sites

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2022
Objective Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) conducted a large demonstration project of a holistic Whole Health approach to care in 18 medical centers, which included making complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies more widely available.
David E. Reed, Barbara G. Bokhour, Lauren Gaj, Anna M. Barker, Jamie H. Douglas, Rian DeFaccio, Rhonda M. Williams, Charles C. Engel, Steven B. Zeliadt   +8 more
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Trends in cardiovascular disease in Scottish military veterans: a retrospective cohort study

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To examine the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Scottish military veterans in comparison with people who had never served in long-term follow-up to 2017, and to compare the findings with our earlier study to 2012 to assess trends.Design
Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell, Beverly P Bergman   +2 more
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