Murdoch Maureen, Bradley Arlene, Mather Susan H, Klein Robert E, Turner Carole L, Yano Elizabeth M
Section of General Internal Medicine, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA.
J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Mar;21 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S5-10. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00368.x.
Most of today's 1.7 million women veterans obtain all or most of their medical care outside the VA health care system, where their veteran status is rarely recognized or acknowledged. Several aspects of women's military service have been associated with adverse psychologic and physical outcomes, and failure to assess women's veteran status, their deployment status, and military trauma history could delay identifying or treating such conditions. Yet few clinicians know of women's military history--or of military service's impact on women's subsequent health and well being. Because an individual's military service may be best understood within the historical context in which it occurred, we provide a focused historical overview of women's military contributions and their steady integration into the Armed Forces since the War for Independence. We then describe some of the medical and psychiatric conditions associated with military service.
如今，170万女性退伍军人中的大多数在退伍军人事务部（VA）医疗保健系统之外获得全部或大部分医疗服务，在该系统中，她们的退伍军人身份很少得到认可或承认。女性服兵役的几个方面与不良的心理和身体后果有关，未能评估女性的退伍军人身份、她们的部署状态以及军事创伤史可能会延迟对这些情况的识别或治疗。然而，很少有临床医生了解女性的军事历史——或者服兵役对女性随后的健康和幸福的影响。由于个人的军事服务可能在其发生的历史背景下得到最好的理解，我们提供了一个重点突出的历史概述，介绍自独立战争以来女性的军事贡献以及她们稳步融入武装部队的情况。然后，我们描述了一些与服兵役相关的医疗和精神疾病。
