Gulf War Veterans

Treating Symptoms and Syndromes

Committee on Identifying Effective Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health Problems, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine (Autoren)

Bernard M. Rosof, Lyla M. Hernandez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

162 Seiten

2001
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-07587-9 (ISBN)

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Ten years after the end of the Gulf War, questions continue to be raised about the health of U.S. service personnel who fought in that war. A primary concern is whether Gulf War veterans are receiving effective treatments for their health problems. Section 105 of the Veterans Program Enhancement Act of 1998 mandates that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ask the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee that would identify a method for assessing treatment effectiveness and describe already-validated treatments for Gulf War veterans' health problems, including the problem of medically unexplained symptoms.
The specific charge to the committee is to (1) identify and describe approaches for assessing treatment effectiveness; (2) identify illnesses and conditions among veterans of the Gulf War, using data obtained from the VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) Gulf War Registries, as well as information in published articles; and (3) for these identified conditions and illnesses, identify validated models of treatment (to the extent that such treatments exist), or identify new approaches, theories, or research on the management of patients with these conditions if validated treatment models are not available.

Committee on Identifying Effective Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health Problems, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Bernard M. Rosof and Lyla M. Hernandez, Editors

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1. Introduction; 4 2. Identifying Conditions for Study; 5 3. Determining Treatment Effectiveness; 6 4. General Approach to Treating Patients; 7 5. Effective Treatments; 8 6. Conclusion; 9 References; 10 Appendix A: Coalition Forces and Force Strength; 11 Appendix B: Workshop Summary; 12 Appendix C: Unique Considerations in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2001
Verlagsort	Washington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin
ISBN-10	0-309-07587-4 / 0309075874
ISBN-13	978-0-309-07587-9 / 9780309075879
Zustand	Neuware