273151 Veterans and military family health: A ground-level view

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

Pauline Lubens, MPH , UC Irvine, Long Beach, CA
     
This presentation will be based on the work I did as a photojournalist – before pursuing an MPH -- covering the toll of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on military personnel and their families. The material will combine a public health framework with a ground-level view of the impact of three major differences of the current wars from previous prolonged US conflicts -- multiple deployments, increased deployment of women in combat roles, and the all-volunteer military. Based on that material the presentation will also pose questions about barriers to care as well as the potential long-term health outcomes that we as public health professionals should seek to answer in future research and policy considerations.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1) Identify needs of military families as well as reservists and national guards that are not addressed by discussions of “veterans” health care. 2) Describe a human face on the topic of health care for veterans

Keywords: Veterans' Health, Mental Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I covered members of the military community from the onset of the war in Iraq, have studied the impact of war on public health while pursuing an MPH.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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