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Can you tell me how has the war on terror affected military health care?

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Dr. Axel Martinez-Irizarry answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Psychiatric Illness: It's more of an opinion question. Overall, it has increased the amount of psychiatric illness patients in the military health care systems with conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety.

Answered 9/28/2016

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Well - : Deployment Health Clinics are one of the results. They often deal with PTSD/depression/ TBI. In looking for more ways to help wounded warriors - congress passed a psychological initiative that has trained many military acupuncturists. The military revamped it's disability system so that now there is combined VA/ military disability processing system. The US public health service helped out by

Answered 10/31/2014

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