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Veterans health care: agency efforts to provide and study prosthetics for small but growing female veteran population : report to congressional committees.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author.
- Series:
- Online access: HeinOnLine HeinOnline GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Veterans Health Administration.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Women veterans--Services for--United States.
- Women veterans.
- Women veterans--Medical care--United States.
- Disabled veterans--Medical care.
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation.
- Prosthesis.
- Women veterans--Medical care.
- Women veterans--Services for.
- Genre:
- Rules
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 45 pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- GAO-21-60 prosthetics for female veterans
- Agency efforts to provide and study prosthetics for small but growing female veteran population
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2020.
- Summary:
- Women are the fastest growing veteran subpopulation, with the number of female veterans using VHA health care services increasing 29 percent from 2014 to 2019. Female veterans accounted for an estimated 10 percent of the total veteran population in fiscal year 2019. They are eligible to receive a full range of VHA health care services, including obtaining prosthetics. This report examines 1) trends in prosthetics provided by VHA to female veterans; 2) characteristics of the female veteran population with limb loss and how VHA provides prosthetic services to these veterans through its Amputation System of Care; and 3) VHA's research efforts and the challenges that exist in studying prosthetics for female veterans with limb loss.
- Contents:
- Background.
- Growth in proportion of prosthetics VHA provided to female veterans included increased demand for women's health items.
- VHA promotes individualized prosthetics care for growing population of female veterans with limb loss under its amputation system of care.
- VHA has funded eight studies on prosthetics for female veterans, but participant recruitment is an ongoing research challenge.
- Agency comments.
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "November 2020."
- "GAO-21-60."
- In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource, title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed Nov. 9, 2023).
- OCLC:
- 1237048944
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