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The challenges facing the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims : hearing before the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 22, 2007.
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Year: 2008

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The veteran's PTSD handbook
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ISBN: 1597973165 9781597973168 1597970646 9781597970648 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Potomac Books

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A comprehensive benefits guide for veterans suffering from PTSD


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Agent Orange review.
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Year: 1982 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Veterans Administration,


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Blue Water Navy Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange exposure
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ISBN: 0309162475 9786613134981 1283134985 0309162483 9780309162487 9780309162470 0309216214 Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press

Life exposed
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ISBN: 9780691090191 0691090181 069109019X 0691151660 1400845092 1299387861 9781400845095 9780691151663 9781299387867 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Woodstock Princeton University Press

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 --- Radioactive pollution --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- Pollution radioactive --- Health aspects --- Aspect sanitaire --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:328H263 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Europa --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Environmental radioactivity --- Nuclear pollution --- Radioactivity, Environmental --- Pollution --- Radioactive substances --- Radioecology --- Radioactive waste disposal --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Social aspects. --- Chernobyl aftermath. --- Chernobyl disaster. --- Chernobyl explosion. --- Chernobyl nuclear reactor. --- Chernobyl sufferers. --- Exclusion Zone. --- Radiation Research Center. --- Safe Living Concept. --- Soviet Union. --- Ukraine. --- accountability. --- biological citizenship. --- biological injury. --- bioscientific collaboration. --- catastrophe. --- clinicians. --- compensation. --- corruption. --- disability claims. --- disability. --- doctorаatient relations. --- environment. --- ethics. --- families. --- family histories. --- health. --- human rights. --- human welfare. --- illness. --- in utero research. --- lichnost'. --- life narratives. --- medical classification. --- medical surveillance. --- medical-labor committees. --- nonsufferers. --- nuclear hazard. --- patients. --- personhood. --- post-Soviet Ukraine. --- public health. --- radiation dose exposure. --- radiation research. --- radiation scientists. --- radiation. --- radioactive fallout. --- self. --- sick role sociality. --- social equity. --- social health. --- social identity. --- social protection. --- social welfare goods. --- state building. --- sufferers. --- suffering. --- technological disasters. --- violence. --- welfare claims.

Adequacy of the comprehensive clinical evaluation program
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ISBN: 0309057434 9786610191437 1280191430 030959040X 0585085854 9780585085852 9780309059497 0309059496 9780309057431 0309059496 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington, D.C.

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MEDICAL --- Health Care Delivery --- Persian Gulf War, 1991 --- Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) --- Occupational Diseases --- Quality of Health Care --- Evaluation Studies as Topic --- Medicine --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Investigative Techniques --- Health Occupations --- Diseases --- Health Services Administration --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Program Evaluation --- Persian Gulf Syndrome --- Process Assessment (Health Care) --- Military Medicine --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Financing, Government --- Financing, Organized --- Economics --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Veterans Disability Claims --- Veterans --- Medical care --- Health aspects --- Claim, Veterans Disability --- Claims, Veterans Disability --- Disability Claim, Veterans --- Disability Claims, Veterans --- Veterans Disability Claim --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Capital --- Conditions, Economic --- Consumption --- Cost of Living --- Easterlin Hypothesis --- Economic Conditions --- Economic Factors --- Economic Policies --- Economic Policy --- Economics, Home --- Factors, Economic --- Home Economics --- Household Consumption --- Macroeconomic Factors --- Microeconomic Factors --- Policies, Economic --- Policy, Economic --- Production --- Remittances --- Utility Theory --- Consumer Price Index --- Condition, Economic --- Consumer Price Indices --- Consumption, Household --- Economic Condition --- Economic Factor --- Factor, Economic --- Factor, Macroeconomic --- Factor, Microeconomic --- Factors, Macroeconomic --- Factors, Microeconomic --- Household Consumptions --- Hypothesis, Easterlin --- Index, Consumer Price --- Indices, Consumer Price --- Living Cost --- Living Costs --- Remittance --- Theories, Utility --- Theory, Utility --- Utility Theories --- Government Financing --- Federal Aid --- Financing, Public --- Grants and Subsidies, Government --- Hill-Burton Act --- Subsidies, Government --- Act, Hill-Burton --- Aid, Federal --- Aids, Federal --- Federal Aids --- Government Subsidies --- Government Subsidy --- Hill Burton Act --- Public Financing --- Subsidy, Government --- Community Financing --- Grants --- Organized Financing --- Financing, Community --- Grant --- Medicine, Military --- Assessment, Process --- Process Measures --- Assessment, Process (Health Care) --- Assessments, Process --- Assessments, Process (Health Care) --- Measure, Process --- Measures, Process --- Process Assessment --- Process Assessments --- Process Assessments (Health Care) --- Process Measure --- Gulf War Syndrome --- Syndrome, Gulf War --- Syndrome, Persian Gulf --- Family Planning Program Evaluation --- Program Appropriateness --- Program Effectiveness --- Program Sustainability --- Evaluation, Program --- Appropriateness, Program --- Effectiveness, Program --- Evaluations, Program --- Program Evaluations --- Program Sustainabilities --- Sustainabilities, Program --- Sustainability, Program --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Care Qualities --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Occupation, Health --- Occupations, Health --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanisms --- Evaluation Mechanism, Healthcare --- Evaluation Mechanisms, Healthcare --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanism --- Mechanism, Healthcare Evaluation --- Mechanisms, Healthcare Evaluation --- Medical Specialities --- Medical Specialties --- Medical Specialty --- Specialities, Medical --- Specialties, Medical --- Specialty, Medical --- Medical Speciality --- Speciality, Medical --- Critique --- Evaluation --- Evaluation Indexes --- Evaluation Methodology --- Evaluation Report --- Evaluation Research --- Methodology, Evaluation --- Pre-Post Tests --- Qualitative Evaluation --- Quantitative Evaluation --- Theoretical Effectiveness --- Use-Effectiveness --- Critiques --- Effectiveness, Theoretical --- Evaluation Methodologies --- Evaluation Reports --- Evaluation, Qualitative --- Evaluation, Quantitative --- Evaluations --- Evaluations, Qualitative --- Evaluations, Quantitative --- Indexes, Evaluation --- Methodologies, Evaluation --- Pre Post Tests --- Pre-Post Test --- Qualitative Evaluations --- Quantitative Evaluations --- Report, Evaluation --- Reports, Evaluation --- Research, Evaluation --- Test, Pre-Post --- Tests, Pre-Post --- Use Effectiveness --- Diseases, Occupational --- Occupational Illnesses --- Disease, Occupational --- Illnesse, Occupational --- Illnesses, Occupational --- Occupational Disease --- Occupational Illnesse --- Donabedian Model --- Donabedian Triad --- Outcome and Process Assessment --- Structure Process Outcome Triad --- Model, Donabedian --- Triad, Donabedian --- Desert Storm, Operation, 1991 --- Gulf War, 1991 --- Operation Desert Storm, 1991 --- War in the Gulf, 1991 --- organization & administration --- Disability Evaluation --- Environmental Exposure --- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity --- Social Validity, Research --- Pharmacy Audit --- Audit, Pharmacy --- Pharmacy Audits --- Occupations --- Accidents, Occupational --- Industry --- Occupational Medicine --- Karoshi Death --- Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991 --- Health Workforce --- Program Evaluation. --- Veterans Disability Claims. --- Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care --- diagnosis. --- organization & administration. --- United States. --- Evaluation.

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