Mental Health Care Shortfall

摘要

RAND Health, an independent, nonprofit health policy research group, has released a report titled, "Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery." RAND says about one in five veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD or serious depression and another 10 percent experience some level of traumatic brain injury. RAND studied the psychological and cognitive needs of all servicemem-bers deployed in the past six years. The study included: 1. a national survey of servicemembers who have been deployed; 2. economic modeling to estimate the cost of not providing appropriate treatment (including loss of productivity and suicide); and 3. an evaluation of treatment services available to servicemembers and barriers to that treatment.