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February 1 2018

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Many US veterans not getting needed mental health care, report indicates
Bloomberg News (1/31, Tozzi) reports that approximately “half of US veterans who served during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t get the mental health care they need, according to a” 439-page report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine “that recommends changes to improve the care delivered by the Veterans Affairs health system.” The report was “ordered by Congress in 2013 and completed by a committee of 18 academics.”
According to HealthDay (1/31, Preidt), the report “recommended that the VA aim to become ‘a reliable [source] of high-quality mental health care services; within three to five years.” The report did find, however, that “the VA provides mental health care that’s comparable or better than care offered by private and non-VA public” clinicians, “according to the report.” Still, “the VA does not have sufficient resources, or veterans don’t know how to access VA mental health care,” the report reveals..

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