Informing the Future Critical Issues in Health (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Military Personnel and Veterans
Military Personnel and Veterans
Pages 77-84
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Longnecker, Chair, IOM Committee on Fluid Resuscitation: State of We Science for Treating Combat Casualties and Civilian Injuries _ ~ he nation's armed services face complex challenges In assuring the health of military personnel, whether on routine assignments or when deployed in combat or in other remote, extreme situations. The military also faces challenges in protecting and promoting the health of the families of active-duty personnel, whether posted with the service members or remaining in the United States, and in providing health services to military retirees and their families.
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Studies conducted by the FNB's Committee on Military Nutntion Research have answered such questions as how to make meals-ready-to-eat (MREs) more palatable and nutritious, and what healthy body weights, or "body compositional standards," are best suited to the various physical performance expectations for active duty personnel.
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DEPLOYMENT-RELATED HEALTH EFFECTS Many veterans arid their families attribute varied chronic and lifethreatening diseases to the effects of service in specific theaters of war or presence at weapons test sites. The TOM conducts studies to assess evidence of short-term and long-term health effects that may support or disprove these connections.
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Major uncerta~nties remain, however, and the report recommends that the federal government sponsor a range of research activities, including population studies, health services research, and clinical and biomedical investigations, to address fimdamental questions about the health of Gulf War veterans. TOM committees are now studying the potential health effects of up to 33 toxic agents that Gulf War veterans may have encountered during their service.
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Discussion of these issues with the DoD fOM committees are now studying resulted in a request by the Depart- the potential health effects of up to ment for comprehensive recommen- 33 toxic agents that Gulf War cations about how to better protect veterans may have encountered deployed forces in fixture combat or during their service. peacekeeping operations.
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the services. Many people within and beyond the Unitary have begun to ask whether there are health consequences of service in military conflicts beyond the obvious war injuries and, if so, whether there are ways to prevent or at least mitigate He consequences of war-related illnesses and deployment-related health effects.
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Along with that, the capacity of developing countries in biomedical surveillance and communications should be fostered. The international infectious disease surveillance activities of the U.S.
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