Veterans’ Health Matters
Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, as well as historic deployments in multiple eras, have resulted in Veterans with a range of post deployment health concerns and the need for providers to understand these concerns and utilize best practices in the identification, assessment, management, and communication of Veteran care. Veterans with complex medical conditions may benefit from a patient centered approach that is rooted in whole health and functional and integrative medicine. Veterans’ Health Matters, a new podcast series sponsored by the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC), offers clinicians, Veterans, and caregivers information on post deployment care, and also offers tools on effective patient-provider communication, various functional and integrative medicine approaches, along with exercise, that can improve the care of our nation’s Veterans. During every episode you’ll hear subject matter experts weigh in on these topics and also talk about services the WRIISC provides because every Veteran’s health really does matter.
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Gulf War Illness Factsheet for Providers: gulf-war-illness-for-providers.pdf (va.gov) ...
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VET-HOME portal https://vethome.va.gov/
VET-HOME support: 1-833-MEE-VTHM or 1-833-633...
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VET-HOME portal https://vethome.va.gov/
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VET-HOME portal https://vethome.va.gov/
About VET-HOME: https://www.publicheal...
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VET-HOME portal https://vethome.va....
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VET-HOME portal https://vethome.va.gov/ VET-HOME support: 1-833-MEE-VTHM or 1-833-...
RESOURCES WRIISC Women’s Operational and Military Exposure Network (WRIISC-WOME...
RESOURCES Email to request hardcopies of the Deployment-Related Res...
Registry Exams: What Clinicians and Healthcare Staff Need to Know
In this episode, Dr. Michelle Robertson, Occupational a...
In this episode, Dr. Drew Helmer, the Deputy Director of the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, joins Dr. Nicole Sullivan, Clinical Psychologist, to discuss tips for how clinicians, nurses, and healthcare providers can engage in every day clinical care of Veterans with exposure concerns.
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Link to VA/DOD Clinical Practice Gu...
Tune into this episode to hear Dr. Lisa McAndrew discuss practical tips for communicating with Veterans about their military exposure concerns, including suggestions for how to respond to traditionally difficult to answer questions.
For more information on exposures and communication techniques, visit: The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC): h...
Listen in to this episode of the Veterans Health Matters podcast to hear Dr. Katherine Bloeser, research scientist at the WRIISC and Assistant Professor of Social Work at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, discuss how providers can speak with Veterans about presumptive conditions for Veterans with military exposure concerns, and how yo...
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Helena Chandler, Acting Director of the NJ WRIISC, and welcome back Dr. Susan Santos, Director of Education and Risk Communication at the WRIISC, as they discuss the WRIISC including its nearly 20-year history and how WRIISC can best serve Veterans and their healthcare teams.
To learn more about the War Related Illness & Injur...
In this episode, Dr. Michael Falvo, Scientific Director of the Airborne Hazards and Burn Pits Center of Excellence, and Matthew Watson, Clinical Exercise Physiologist, discuss how to measure or monitor personal exercise and physical activity, some advantages and disadvantages of doing so, and its importance to Veterans and clinical providers.
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