PREFACE The military provides health services to dependents and retirees both through the on-base military health system—Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs), and through the private health care system—CHAMPUS (Civilian Health and Medical Plan for the Uniformed Services). Because the average cost per visit has been estimated to be less in the MTFs, it has been suggested that increasing MTF staf...

BACKGROUND Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) have endured high combat stress and are eligible for 2 years of free military service-related health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, yet little is known about the burden and clinical circumstances of mental health diagnoses among OEF/OIF veterans seen at VA facilities. METHO...

The article deals with the organizational and legal aspects of providing surgical care to Ukrainian military in conditions a full-scale war Ukraine. It also analyzes management wounded soldiers on example activities run at Mechnikov Regional Hospital Dnipropetrovsk Council (or for short) Dnipro, research object was selected due fact that this specialized civilian medical institution is closest ...

The article reviews building techniques, used for constructing a monumental fortification of the 6th century, erected in river-valley Rubas, near village Kommuna, Derbent region Republic Dagestan. site includes six objects different layout and construction, connected with junctions into single object – construction arched type, Wall 1, Long wall 2, Stepped structure 6, 3, Platform 5. Analysis e...

The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Section on Uniformed Services of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In April 1959, the AAP’s Executive Board voted to approve the Section’s creation, an idea that was conceived nearly 2 years earlier by an army pediatrician named Major Bedford Berrey, who saw the need for an organization within the AAP’s larger umbrell...