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Examining Health Care Mobility of Transgender Veterans Across the Veterans Health Administration

LGBT Health, 2021
Purpose: Transgender veterans are overrepresented in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) compared with in the general population. Utilization of multiple different health care systems, or health care mobility, can affect care coordination and potentially affect outcomes, either positively or negatively.
Karen H, Wang, Gail, McAvay, Allison, Warren, Mary L, Miller, Anthony, Pho, John R, Blosnich, Cynthia A, Brandt, Joseph L, Goulet   +7 more
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Whole Health in the Veterans Health Administration [PDF]

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2022
The Whole Health System being developed and implemented at the Veterans Health Administration is an approach to care which aims to shift the discussion from "What's the Matter With You?" to "What Matters to You?" This article describes some of the progress and future challenges in the implementation of this approach across the VHA.
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Out of the trenches; prevalence of Australian veterans among the homeless population and the implications for public health

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objectives: To examine the prevalence of Australian Defence Force veterans among people sleeping rough and explore their health and social needs relative to non‐veteran rough sleepers.
Lisa Wood, Paul Flatau, Ami Seivwright, Nicholas Wood   +3 more
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VA’s implementation of universal screening and evaluation for the suicide risk identification program in November 2020 –Implications for Veterans with prior mental health needs

PLoS ONE, 2023
Importance United States Veterans are at higher risk for suicide than non-Veterans. Veterans in rural areas are at higher risk than their urban counterparts.
Kritee Gujral, Nazanin Bahraini, Lisa A. Brenner, James Van Campen, Donna M. Zulman, Samantha Illarmo, Todd H. Wagner   +6 more
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Mental health utilization among older Veterans with coexisting depression and dementia

SAGE Open Medicine, 2015
Objective: We compared mental health service utilization among older, depressed Veterans (60 years or older) with and without coexisting dementia. Methods: This retrospective study examined data from the 2010 Veterans Health Administration National ...
Elizabeth A DiNapoli, Jeffrey A Cully, Juliette M Mott, Natalie E Hundt, Joseph Mignogna, Shubhada Sansgiry, Hong Jen Yu, Lisa H Trahan, Mark E Kunik   +8 more
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Health coverage types and their relationship to mental and physical health in U.S. veterans

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019
Objective: To examine sociodemographic characteristics and chronic health conditions in veterans across health coverage types including those without coverage.
Judith D. Weissman, David Russell, Fatemeh Haghighi, Lisa Dixon, Marianne Goodman   +4 more
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Association of Cardiovascular Disease and Military Veteran Status With Impairments in Physical and Psychological Functioning: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis of US National Survey Data

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2022
Introduction: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides multidisciplinary team-based care with peer-to-peer support for diabetes and obesity, but not for most heart diseases.
Nicole K. Early PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, Kelsey Buckley PharmD, BCACP, Nana Entsuah PharmD, Kathleen A. Fairman MA, PhD   +3 more
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Characteristics and likelihood of ongoing homelessness among unsheltered veterans [PDF]

, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Unsheltered homelessness is an important phenomenon yet difficult to study due to lack of data. The Veterans Health Administration administers a universal homelessness screener, which identifies housing status for Veterans screening ...
Byrne, Thomas H., Culhane, Dennis P., Montgomery, Ann Elizabeth, Treglia, Daniel   +3 more
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Lung Cancer Screening Among U.S. Military Veterans by Health Status and Race and Ethnicity, 2017–2020: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study

AJPM Focus, 2023
Introduction: Veterans are at high risk for lung cancer and are an important group for lung cancer screening. Previous research suggests that lung cancer screening may not be reaching healthier and/or non-White individuals, who stand to benefit most from
Alison S. Rustagi, MD, PhD, Amy L. Byers, PhD, MPH, James K. Brown, MD, Natalie Purcell, PhD, Christopher G. Slatore, MD, MS, Salomeh Keyhani, MD, MPH   +5 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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