Article ID: CBB012626039

Help Without Hassles: Instituting Community-Based Care for U.S. Veterans after the War in Vietnam (2021)

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In 1979, the U.S. Congress approved funding for an outpatient, community-based “readjustment counseling” program to be overseen by the Veterans Administration (VA) and accessible to those who had served in the military during the era of the war in Vietnam. Today, three hundred Vet Centers are located throughout the country and their doors are open to veterans of a variety of conflicts; they outnumber VA hospitals two to one. This article explores conditions undergirding the establishment of the first Vet Centers and the program’s broader implications, as well as the general issue of why public health systems change over time. Highlighting dynamics of how the VA gradually “deinstitutionalized” in the mid-twentieth century, it focuses on trends related to war and health, notions of federal responsibility, health activism and rights of people from marginalized groups, and connections between political ideology and medical diagnoses and treatment.

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Authors & Contributors
Cantor, David
Sharman Levinson
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Stéphanie Pache
Fitzpatrick, K. Meghan
Beaudevin, Claire
Concepts
Public health
Health care
Medicine and politics
Medicine and government
Medicine and society
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Commonwealth countries
China
Tibet
India
Institutions
African National Congress
World Health Organization (WHO)
American Red Cross
American Medical Association
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