This descriptive study examines how military deployments affect custodial grandparents who are appointed to care for grandchildren during this parental absence. Participants were recruited through pre-existing support groups in community agencies located near military installations.
Objective. Children are frequently perceived to be healthy, low-risk individuals with a majority of clinical services devoted to health maintenance and preventive clinical services. However, a subset of children have unique needs that require specialized care to achieve optimal health outcomes.
Children in military families experience health challenges just like children in other families.
Overweight and obesity prevalence has increased over the past 30 years. Few studies have looked at the enrolled Military Health System (MHS) population (2,2 million per year).
This descriptive report, for 2009-2012, compares the prevalence of overweight and obese children and adults in the Military Health System (MHS) population to rates of the general U.S. population.
Using data from the 2002 Department of Defense Survey of Health Related Behaviors, we examined levels of drinking and alcohol-related problems (dependence symptoms, driving after drinking, productivity loss, serious consequences) for enlisted men and women and male and female officers.
Given the increasing numbers and expanding roles for women in the military, the researchers sought to understand if there were behavioral differences with regard to the levels of drinking and alcohol related problems (dependence symptoms, driving after drinking, productivity loss, serious consequ
For family members of dying patients who have grown accustomed to providing daily body care, the transition from home to hospital is stressful. The authors used the experiences surrounding death for 78 U.S. veterans who died in a Veterans Affairs hospital.
Interviews were conducted with the next-of-kin of 78 Veterans who died in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, to discuss their experiences transitioning from home care to hospital care.