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The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they recognized—or not—by their governments and fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain an elevated postwar status? In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable policies. The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support. The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future: comparative veteran studies.
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Minimal damage : stories of veterans
War shows its human face in Barnes's short story collection about veterans of Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Mogadishu and Iraq trying to get on with their civilian lives after experiencing the horrors of battle.
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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill
The period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent
political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and
other voices clamoring to be heard. One group of activists that has
yet to be closely examined by historians is World War I veterans.
Mining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the
American Legion (AL), Stephen R. Ortiz reveals that veterans
actively organized in the years following the war to claim state
benefits (such as pensions and bonuses), and strove to articulate a
role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New
Deal era. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill is unique in its
treatment of World War I veterans as significant political actors
during the interwar period. Ortiz's study reinterprets the
political origins of the \"Second\" New Deal and Roosevelt's
electoral triumph of 1936, adding depth not only to our
understanding of these events and the political climate surrounding
them, but to common perceptions of veterans and their
organizations. In describing veteran politics and the competitive
dynamics between the AL and the VFW, Ortiz details the rise of
organized veterans as a powerful interest group in modern American
politics.
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Wounds of war : how the VA delivers health, healing, and hope to the nation's veterans
\"The book looks at the largest hospital system in the country, the Veterans Healthcare Administration--one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media. The author spent five years closely observing the VHA's treatment of patients suffering from service related injuries, physical and mental. This book describes how the VHA, tasked with a challenging patient population, does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. It explores how the resulting public debate about the future of veterans' health care has pitted VHA patients and their care-givers against politicians and policy-makers who believe that former military personnel would be better served by private health care providers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Consideration of substance use in compensation and pension examinations of veterans filing PTSD claims
Veterans filing claims that service-induced PTSD impairs them worry that claims examiners may attribute their difficulties to conditions other than PTSD, such as substance use. Substance use commonly co-occurs with PTSD and complicates establishing a PTSD diagnosis because symptoms may be explained by PTSD alone, PTSD-induced substance use, or by a substance use condition independent of PTSD. These alternative explanations of symptoms lead to different conclusions about whether a PTSD diagnosis can be made. How substance use impacts an examiner's diagnosis of PTSD in a Veteran's service-connection claim has not been previously studied. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that mention of risky substance use in the Compensation & Pension (C&P) examination would result in a lower likelihood of service-connection award, presumably because substance use reflected an alternative explanation for symptoms. Data were analyzed from 208 Veterans' C&P examinations, medical records, and confidentially-collected research assessments. In this sample, 165/208 (79%) Veterans' claims were approved for a mental health condition; 70/83 (84%) with risky substance use mentioned and 95/125 (76%) without risky use mentioned (p = .02). Contrary to the a priori hypothesis, Veterans with risky substance use were more likely to get a service-connection award, even after controlling for baseline PTSD severity and other potential confounds. They had almost twice the odds of receiving any mental health award and 2.4 times greater odds of receiving an award for PTSD specifically. These data contradict assertions of bias against Veterans with risky substance use when their claims are reviewed. The data are more consistent with substance use often being judged as a symptom of PTSD. The more liberal granting of awards is consistent with literature concerning comorbid PTSD and substance use, and with claims procedures that make it more likely that substance use will be attributed to trauma exposure than to other causes.
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Wounded Warrior Handbook
The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury.To soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next--even completing tasks that seem easy like submitting paperwork--can be overwhelming and confusing.The second edition of this popular.
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Women as veterans in Britain and France after the First World War
\"This is the story of how women in France and Britain between 1915 and 1933 appropriated the cultural identity of female war veteran in order to have greater access to public life and a voice in a political climate in which women were rarely heard on the public stage\"-- Provided by publisher.
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LINKING HEALTH ATTRIBUTES TO ACUTE-CARE USAGE IN SOUTH FLORIDA VETERANS, A PILOT SURVEY STUDY
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“High-Need, High-Risk” (HNHR) Veteran patients are identified quarterly by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as having the top 5% predicted probability of hospitalization or mortality. We fielded a pilot survey to 2,543 older “HNHR” Veterans receiving care at the Miami VA Medical Center between October 2017 and September 2018, where 634 replied; mean age 70.61, standard deviation, 8.98, racially/ethnically White (403, 61.24%), Black (240, 36.47%), Hispanic (537, 81.61%) and nineteen women (3%). The survey contained 42 self-reported questions covering physical, mental, and social determinants of health, and access/use of healthcare resources. Two measured prior 6-month acute-care utilization outcomes: emergency room visits (ERV) and inpatient hospital admissions (IHA). Logistic regression was used to find health attributes associated with both outcomes, and latent class analysis was used to group Veterans into clinically relevant latent classes, analyzing health attributes endorsed by each. We found that transportation access issues to receiving healthcare were associated with both outcomes (OR = 2.980, p = 0.014), underscoring the role of social determinants of health. Self-perceptions of general health (OR = 0.806, p = 0.04), and a Veteran attending the Miami VA frailty clinic (OR = 0.435, p < 0.001), were associated with ERV and IHA, respectively. We identified four latent classes distinctly grouping patients by endorsing 1) depression; 2) not having a caregiver and being unmarried; 3) functional issues, and 4) being homebound and receiving home healthcare. These latent classes will help better inform clinical recommendations and program development to better meet needs for “HNHR” Veterans.
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