VA health care overview
Author: United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-09-30
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0309106311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends improvements in the medical evaluation and rating of veterans for the benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to compensate for illnesses or injuries incurred in or aggravated by military service. Compensation is a monthly cash benefit based on a rating schedule that determines the degree of disability on a scale of 0 to 100. Although a disability rating may also entitle a veteran to ancillary services, such as vocational rehabilitation and employment services, the rating schedule is out of date medically and contains ambiguous criteria and obsolete conditions and language. The current rating schedule emphasizes impairment and limitations or loss of specific body structures and functions which may not predict disability well. 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends that this schedule could be revised to include modern concepts of disability including work disability, nonwork disability, and quality of life. In addition to the need for an updated rating schedule, this book highlights the need for the Department of Veterans' Affairs to devote additional resources to systematic analysis of how well it is providing services or how much the lives of veterans are being improved, as well as the need for a program of research oriented toward understanding and improving the effectiveness of its benefits programs.
Author: Daniel Bertoni
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 1437910610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Feb. 2007, a series of articles in ¿The Washington Post¿ about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center highlighted problems in the military¿s disability evaluation system (DES). Subsequently, the Dept. of the Army, the DoD, and the VA undertook initiatives to address concerns with the DES. In 2007, the Army took steps to streamline its process, and DoD and VA began piloting a joint evaluation system to address systemic concerns abut timeliness and the potential inefficiency of having separate DES. This report examines: (1) recent actions by the Army to help servicemembers navigate its DES; and (2) the status, plans, and challenges of DoD and VA¿s efforts to pilot and implement a joint DES Includes recommendations. Illustrations.
Author: Robert E. Robertson (au)
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2006-06
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781422307151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David A. Gerber
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012-06-06
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0472035088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan