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Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3...
Redefining an Illness
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are serious, debilitating conditions that affect millions of people in the United St...
Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals-often referred to under the umbrella acronym LGBT-are becoming more visible in soci...
Implications for the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income Program
Speech and language are central to the human experience; they are the vital means by which people convey and receive knowledge, thoughts, feelings, an...
Many veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have health problems they believe are related to their exposure to the smoke from t...
The Air Force Health Study (AFHS) is a longitudinal, prospective epidemiologic study of more than 2,700 men followed for approximately 20 years. This ...
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two disability programs: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), for disabled ...
Workshop Summary
Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health Records: Workshop Summary reviews the statement of task set to the committ...
Between 1963 and 1969, the U.S. military carried out a series of tests, termed Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), to evaluate the vulnerabil...
Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic growth of genetic testing in the health care system. The ...
Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury
Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Betw...
Updating the Social Security Listings
The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired th...
Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
As of December 2012, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq have resulted in the deployment of abou...
Volume 10: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War, 2016
For the United States, the 1991 Persian Gulf War was a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. However, soon after retur...
From 1972 to 1982, approximately 1,500-2,100 US Air Force Reserve personnel trained and worked on C-123 aircraft that had formerly been used to spray ...
Final Assessment
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it affects veterans of all er...
The medical research landscape in the United States is supported by a variety of organizations that spend billions of dollars in government and privat...
Beginning with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, the United States continued to build nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War. T...
Model Study Protocols and Frameworks to Advance the State of the Science: Workshop Summary
In October 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluating the Evide...
Problems stemming from the misuse and abuse of alcohol and other drugs are by no means a new phenomenon, although the face of the issues has changed i...
Treatment for Chronic Multisymptom Illness
Chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) is a serious condition that imposes an enormous burden of suffering on our nation's veterans. Veterans who have CMI...
Volume 8: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War
Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenge...
Update 2014
From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy c...
Founded during the Civil War as the Army Medical Museum, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) amassed the world's largest collection of huma...
In this book, the IOM makes recommendations for permitting independent practice for mental health counselors treating patients within TRICARE-the DOD'...
Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations
The 2010 opening of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) created a joint entity between the Department of Defense (DoD) and t...
Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing con...
U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, located in eastern North Carolina, is a large installation that covers 156,000 acres and is home at any given tim...
A Workshop Summary
Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparis...
Case Definitions Reexamined
More than 2 decades have passed since the 1990-1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf. During the intervening years, many Gulf War veterans have experience...
Volume 9: Long-Term Effects of Blast Exposures
Since the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 and then in Iraq in March 2003, the numbers of US soldiers killed excee...
Update 2012
An Assessment of Programs
Being deployed to a war zone can result in numerous adverse psychological health conditions. It is well documented in the literature that there are hi...
Over 3 million U.S. military personnel were sent to Southeast Asia to fight in the Vietnam War. Since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans have report...
Update 2010
Because of continuing uncertainty about the long-term health effects of the sprayed herbicides on Vietnam veterans, Congress passed the Agent Orange A...
In January 2015, the Institute of Medicine conducted a study to determine the incidence and prevalence, as well as the risk of developing multiple scl...
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to disabled adults and children, offering vital financial support to more than 19 mill...
Initial Assessment
Prior to the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars and conflicts have been characterized by such injuries as infectious diseases and catast...