Returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan : assessment of readjustment needs of veterans, service members, and their families / Committee on the Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"As of December 2012, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq have resulted in the deployment of about 2.2 million troops; there have been 2,222 US fatalities in OEF and Operation New Dawn (OND)1 and 4,422 in OIF. The numbers of wounded US troop...

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Language:English
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Characteristics of the Deployed
  • Long-Term Outcomes
  • Screening, Assessment, and Treatment
  • Military Families
  • Community Impacts of Deployment
  • Socioeconomic Impacts of Deployment on Service Members and Spouses
  • Access and Barriers to Care
  • Proposed Data Analyses
  • Recommendations
  • Appendix A: Legislation Framing the Committee's Task
  • Appendix B: Phase I Summary
  • Appendix C: The DoD and VA Response to the Phase I Report
  • Appendix D: Summary of Federally Funded Research Related to OEF and OIF Populations
  • Appendix E: Individual Ethnographic Assessments of Six Communities
  • Appendix F: Sample of Government Data and Databases.