Va Health Care In Rural Areas

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978100152
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book Va Health Care in Rural Areas written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VA health care in rural areas: hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, June 16, 2010.

Author : United States Senate
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ISBN 13 : 9781694323316
Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book VA Health Care in Rural Areas written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VA health care in rural areas: hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, June 16, 2010.

Author : U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781489553348
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Vs. Urban Ambulatory Health Care written by U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 3 million veterans, slightly more than one-third of all veterans enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, live in rural areas. This pattern is likely to continue, as a comparable proportion of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans are from rural areas. The Rural Veterans Care Act of 2006 was signed into law to improve care for rural veterans. Ensuring that the health care needs of rural veterans are met has become a top priority for VA, resulting in a considerable expansion of community based outpatient clinics (CBOCs), inclusion of rural health/access as a research priority, and creation of the VA Office of Rural Health (ORH) in 2006. Although there have been reports comparing health quality of life (both physical and mental) for rural and urban veterans, it remains unclear whether the observed lower health quality of life in rural veterans is due to disparities in health care, differences in disease prevalence, or other population differences. This systematic review examines the evidence regarding potential disparities between rural and urban areas in health care provision and delivery, and how differences in health care may contribute to disparities in health outcomes. Differences in rural-urban prevalence rates of diseases and other health conditions are beyond the scope of this review. Because veterans who use VA health care have been found to use more non-VA health care overall, we expanded the focus of this review to include comparisons of rural vs. urban health care in non-VA health systems. Our first goal was to determine if a health care disparity exists across the urban-rural spectrum. For a disparity to exist, it would have to be demonstrated that health care outcomes of patients in rural areas differ from those of patients treated in urban areas for similar conditions. Because differences in health care process or delivery do not necessarily lead to disparities, we looked for evidence associating differences with poorer health outcomes. For the purposes of this review we conceptualized rural-urban disparities as differences in health care quality or availability. A second goal of the review was to identify areas for intervention should any disparities be found. In order to develop a meaningful intervention, specific information regarding differences in the structure of health care and the way it is administered (i.e., the process) would be critical. Since differences in health outcomes can occur for reasons other than differences in the health care systems themselves (e.g., accessibility), our third goal was to examine what, if any, nonhealth care factors (e.g., travel distance to a clinic) affected health outcomes. Because veterans who use VA health care actually use more non-VA health care overall,9 we expanded the focus of this review to include comparisons of rural vs. urban health care in non-VA health systems The key questions were: Key Question #1. Do adults with health care needs who live in rural areas have different intermediate (e.g., hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c], Blood pressure, etc.) or final health outcomes (i.e., mortality, morbidity, quality of life [QOL]) than those living in urban areas? Key Question #2. Is the structure (e.g., types of available providers) or the process (e.g., likelihood of referral) of health care different for adults with health care needs who live in urban vs. rural environments? Key Question #3. If there are differences in the structure or the process of health care in rural vs. urban environments, do those differences contribute to variation in overall or intermediate health outcomes for adults with health care needs? Key Question #4. If there are differences in intermediate or final health outcomes for adult patients with health care needs, what other systems factors moderate those differences (e.g., availability of specialists, type of treatment needed, travel distance)?

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VA Health Care in Rural Areas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VA's Efforts to Provide High Quality Health Care to Veterans in Rural Communities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Care for Veterans in Rural Areas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309466601
Total Pages : 467 pages
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Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing the Health Gap of Veterans in Rural Areas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book H.R. 2824--proposed Rural Health Care Pilot Program and Expanded Sharing of Federal Health Care Resources written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Veterans Health Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Primary Care at VA. written by United States. Veterans Health Administration and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: