Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War Initial Findings and Recommendations for Immediate Action (1995) / Chapter Skim
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We have not limited our discussions to a narrow interpretation of the charge, but rather have chosen to broaden the scope of our study of health outcomes and related research efforts, to include women's health and reproductive issues, infrastructure and procedures for data collection, health services influences, nutritional problems of military personnel, the role of psychiatric diagnosis, the review of Persian Gulf boards and coordination groups, as well as issues stemming from involvement in the Persian Gulf region that might have relevance to possible future conflicts. To gather information for this report, committee members listened to invited presentations (see Appendix B)
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The chapter is divided into the following sections: "Boards and Committees," "Population-Based Activities," "Health-Outcome-Based Activities—Completed or Well Underway," "Health-Outcome-Based Activities New or Just Beginning," and "Exposure-Based Activities." Appendix A comprises the putative outcomes and exposures that the committee has been, and will continue to, evaluate and modify as additional information becomes available; Appendix B is a listing of invited presentations; Appendix C contains relevant portions of the laws that are mentioned in this report. Included in Appendix D are the dates of each IOM committee meeting, a list of persons who presented or submitted testimony for the committee's public meeting, and a list of persons who have subsequently sent materials to the IOM committee.
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On January 12, 1991 Congress passed House Joint Resolution 77, which authorized President Bush to use armed forces in the region to implement UN resolution 678. On January 14, this resolution was signed into law as Public Law (PL)
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Subsequently, in PL 102-585, passed on November 4, 1992, the Persian Gulf Registry mandate to DoD was expanded to include the location of "any other members who served in the Operation Desert Storm theater of operations during the Persian Gulf conflict." Records of the DoD register are designed to include service members' names and other relevant identifying information, the grid location of their service in the Gulf, and the prevailing atmospheric and other environmental conditions, including length of time exposed to burning oil fumes. In addition, PL 102-585 also mandated that the Department of Veterans Affairs establish a Persian Gulf War Veterans Health Registry, and that it record relevant medical data on members of the Armed Forces who served in the Persian Gulf theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War.
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The Persian Gulf Veterans Coordinating Board, chaired by the Secretaries of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, oversees the coordination of all efforts in research, clinical care and disability determination/compensation for illness related to service in ODS/S. The Persian Gulf Interagency Research Coordinating Council serves as the research working group of the Persian Gulf Veterans Coordinating Board, which coordinates all Persian Gulf health consequences research activities of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
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