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Health concerns Budget for the military

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TOC o “1-3” h z u HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121478” Executive Summary PAGEREF _Toc351121478 h 3

HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121479” Military health PAGEREF _Toc351121479 h 4

HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121480” Health problems PAGEREF _Toc351121480 h 4

HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121481” Consequences of the health problems PAGEREF _Toc351121481 h 5

HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121482” Health strategies for the military PAGEREF _Toc351121482 h 7

HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121483” Implementation of the health policies PAGEREF _Toc351121483 h 8

HYPERLINK l “_Toc351121484” Works Cited PAGEREF _Toc351121484 h 13

Executive SummaryThe military as a defense organization is a vital arm of the state. This defense institution is also an essential unit for nations worldwide and is recognized with the significant role of ensuring citizen’s safety and secure territorial layers globally. Military health is a major concern for everyone; it is a priority but a neglected duty on the concerned organization management authority. These have led to a sense of responsible action measure on the health issues affecting the effective progress of the defense system personnel. The military health concerns emerge from varied complex factors ranging from internal and external matters that constitute a large attribute to the related impact on the wellbeing of these individuals. Some of the notable factors for military health include diseases and complex condition attributes, hazardous exposure, medically unexplained situations, mental trauma, alcohols, consistent drug abuse, physical injuries and work adjustments. Budgets should be considered with extreme significance when it concerns the health of our military.

Military healthMilitary health is mostly controlled by behavioral and substance in take and consumption. This challenges the basic ground for critical and appropriate reasoning. Further the challenges are catalyzed by the common human drug approach that drugs and alcohol tend to offset depression and trauma. It further points to addiction habits, combat preparation, and retain composure during crisis. These opinions have led to severe engagement of violent acts of misconduct, temporal code of professional ethos, rough disciplinary action, and even death penalties. In some cases, the servicemen have been witnessed to quit their duties due to the overwhelming problems. The military personnel has had to take the responsibility of unauthorized action of some drug addicts that have tainted the military image and brought untold misery and consequences to the defense department. Military fatality rates have grown in number due to combat with terrorists, gunmen and other international criminal element.

Health problemsMental problems are the most commonly experienced challenges in the military. These problems have challenged the reasoning ability, failed the individuals on mind test exercises, and prompted dismissal of servicemen without proper investigations. Some of the notable health consequences include alteration disorders, apprehension and alcoholic abuse (Taube, pg. 117). Adjustment disorders are a situation that the officers find uneasy to erase violent experience that they have undergone over periods in battle zones. These may even be family related when they face divorce problems or have ended relationship; this greatly affects the well being of the soldiers and creates a depression. Most of these problems are common in troops that are on constant deployment, those in junior ranks and junior years of service.

Servicemen are also exposed to distressing events and violent happenings. This is a shortcoming to the defense department and has a diverse effect even on the execution of formal orders. The distressing period is normally followed by extreme nightmares and may become complex and bring other psychological problems that create unrest (Taube, pg117). Post-traumatic symptoms comprise of anxiety feelings, lack of wise decision making, memories of intrusive and surplus thoughts of disturbing events, having complexity in sleeping, feeling ill-tempered or irritated, ending relationships, refraining from exercises that trigger distasteful emotions. These actions eventually frustrate the servicemen who resort alcohol as an immediate solution or for comfort. Painful memories from the battle fields make some of the servicemen imagine of the real untold misery.

Consequences of the health problemsStigma among the military personnel is a great threat that imposes lack of self-confidence, mutual understanding, and spikes segregation of the affected individuals. This situation is posed in the training condition where the servicemen are trained on resilience and ability to withstand hostile environment. During this period, some individuals would want to be seen as courageous. When there is a posing challenge or hard training to pursue, inferiority takes shape and they become mentally challenged of the embraced harassment. Situations like this affect the military career to an adversely great extent since the personnel are forced to hand in early resignation.

Physical injuries are a common problem in the military; this is incurred during combat in the battlefields. Some of the physical injuries may be as a result of exposure to attacks from combat artillery and ambush from gunmen (Adler, pg 156). Faulty weapons have contributed to many physical injuries in the military. During combat training and weapon tests, some artillery has been seen to wound the servicemen and some have been permanently disabled as a result. Exposure to harmful chemicals during the radioactive tests drills has had some individuals come in contact with the dangerous substances causing infection in the body systems. The exposure has, for example, resulted in eye sight complications, skin irritation, and breathing difficulties. Poor training environment has generated to challenge in health conditions.

The servicemen exposed to poor training environments and poor feeding programs have succumbed to these injuries. A common depressing manipulation of poor military service is the continued intake of alcohol. Troops from deployment and operations drink at an alarming rate. This behavior has long term effects on their health, communal and career functioning. Rank is a generating factor that has affected the service minority personnel. Fear of confidentiality to share affecting issues is familiar, and the junior or regular personnel struggle to hide the miseries during the service terms (Adler, pg. 156). This has created a negative overview of the military service and bad implications to the department of defense at large.

Fatal combats that claim the lives of military personnel are a common factor that has continued to challenge the health of servicemen. During this period, families of the fallen soldiers are not regarded with the expected compensation scheme that last a lifetime. The serving officers who have a fallen comrade painfully take notice of these treatments that do not embrace professionalism. The knowledge acquired through civilian training can be practical to combat situations; however, most of the skills cannot apply in battle fields.

Combat injuries often involve fast moving ammunition that causes injuries different from incidents in civilian disturbance centers. Injuries from full blast explosions are normally severe and consequential in nature. Blast wounds and extreme missile wounds are very complex particularly in terrorist attack. These missiles are cheap, easy to purchase and have a destructive effect; the explosives include striking military hardware from terrorists, while the injuries from rebel attacks also result from explosive blasts. In battlefields, tissue loss and fast contamination extent are extremely common (Adler, pg. 156). Contagion and soft-tissue damage caused by improvised, explosive devices entail aggressive treatment approach than most gunfire wounds. Regardless of degree, explosive injuries are qualitatively diverse from gun blast wounds.

Health strategies for the militaryMajor health solutions have been put in place to impact positively on the operation of military officers. Professional institutes have been paired with the military units to provide access to quality healthcare, pharmaceutical supplies, and permanent medical consultations. In order to meet required commander operations, these medical professional are deployed appropriately and effectively. They mobilize and respond fast to changing security settings, disaster prone areas, emergency evacuation missions, and casualty recording events. The personnel categorize, expand and protract critical military capability in operational procedures. Medical promptness ensures service members clean of health-related conditions that limit the capacity to aggressively accomplish assigned missions.

Necessary provision are now a package of improvements employed as the Government’s assurance to provide military and other individuals making the transition from military service to civilian life in standard health care diagnosis level. They include assurances to all victims of combat casualty to receive early and inclusive assessment of their basic needs in future before they retire from service; high quality care policies to servicemen continuing with healthcare requirements based on a regular appraisal of their requirements approved by ranking military personnel; grant funding to regular officers and individuals experiencing combat stress to work directly with mental health confidential program as a guarantee on the services provided are available and suitable for military personnel.

The government has involved interpersonal allocation of related organization that has experience working with servicemen worldwide. This is to allocate advice, knowledge, and standard practice to improve services for the military. An entitlement to all combat individuals who had disabilities during service in the Armed Forces to obtain, standard prosthetic limb compensation program and free treatment from the Defense Medical Services is an outcome of the technological advancement.

Appointed governmental commissions from intentional Health Authority, working with Care Trust Departments, are established to ensure the provision of the armed forces requirements, their families and Veterans become inclusive in plans and service stipulation. Equally important is an implementation of the efficient retirement benefits act to be implemented for the veterans. This will include awareness of veterans’ category of new patients to ensure that they receive an entitlement to precedence treatment on injuries or illness complication arising from their time in serving.

Implementation of the health policiesThe long term mental healthcare of military is currently working with the Department of Health and the charity Combat Stress to steer a new community-based model for the mental healthcare of military (Burrelli,pg 187). The intended plan for the program is to make expertise in military psychological health issues available to health professionals through a sequence of regional clinical networks, a military Community psychological Health facility. and a specialist centre with an interest in psychological injury. This facility will comprise of a group of servicemen psychological Health Therapist. The scheme will provide services that can be accessed easily by veterans suffering from anxiety, depression, alcohol and drug misuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder with diagnosis and treatment of (PTSD). The objective is to focus on veterans whose psychological health needs are not being met by their local psychological health services.

The main course of this program is that military will have the right of entry to the service through multiple routes which include self referral, the charitable sector, the Servicemen Welfare Service and through an individual’s service unit. Referrals from resident psychiatric services, such as Combat Stress, will also be accepted.

Following an early review, individuals should be directed to appropriate treatment and support from their service unit or area psychological health services, with or without the support of the community therapist or others with relevant military knowledge (Burrelli,pg 187). Individuals with severe needs that require expert assessment and treatment may be referred as an in-patient to a combat stress care home. The intention is to involve the service unit and keep them informed at all times.

Reserved psychological health program have been considered and new psychological healthcare program for reservists would be established. The psychological health program will be accessible to former and current members of the volunteer and regular reserves who have been demobilized due their deployment overseas.

The Ministry of defense contributes funds to the charity Combat Stress which aims to address the psychological health concerns of veterans. The Government announced a donation for Combat Stress to work with psychological health trusts to guarantee the services they provide are available to and appropriate for the veterans. The department of health donated grants to aid in improving psychological health services and access to services for veterans (Parrish, pg 187). The fund are expected to help the Community Psychiatric Nurses to work in psychological Health Trusts alongside professional Combat Stress groups to create better links between the two and enabling more veterans to be treated closer to their homes and families.

The Psychological Health Help lines will provide assistance for veterans’ to access advice and support 24 hours a day. It also enhance education and training for service unit to facilitate them in identify veterans suffering from psychological health tribulations and provide them with the information and skills to guarantee that veterans get the best feasible treatment

Military health is a concern for the nation. It is evident that the government does not have the guaranteed policies in place to control the fatality rate, compensational schemes-that dwell on the welfare of the servicemen, and adequate medical facilities that work on the combat casualties. There are mental health problems that most of the military department has sidelined away from permanent medical facility and accesses (Parrish, pg 187). This continues to be a threat in the society and for families of the veteran. However the government has come up with many medical strategies to work on the welfare of the military. If these schemes and policies are correctly implemented, they can shape future improvement of servicemen health records. The provision of mental care facilities is a great achievement from the government. This has seen the rehabilitation of traumatized victims of terror and drug influenced addicts make progress. Finally, the allocation of advanced medical facility has had an impact of the death rate graphs. If these facilities could be mobile and accessible at the sight of casualty impact, then the military officers can have an assurance of their healthcare.

Works CitedAdler, Amy B, Paul D. Bliese, and Carl A. Castro. Deployment Psychology: Evidence-based Strategies to Promote Mental Health in the Military. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2011. Print

Burrelli, David F. Military Health Care / Champus Management Initiatives. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1991. Print

Norris, Fran H. Methods for Disaster Mental Health Research. New York: Guilford Press, 2006. Print.

Parrish, I S. Military Veterans Ptsd Reference Manual. Haverford, Penn: Infinity, 2001. Print.

Taube, Carl A. Veterans with Mental Disorders, 1963-1967: Mental Health Facilities Report. Chevy Chase, Md: National Institute of Mental Health, 1969. Print