Reproductive and Other Health Outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan Women Veterans Using VA Health Care: Association with Mental Health Diagnoses

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Cohen, Beth E ^a,b   Maguen, Shira ^a,b   Bertenthal, Daniel ^a,b   Shi, Ying ^a   Jacoby, Vanessa ^b   Seal, Karen H ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARMY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ICD-9; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MILITARY SERVICE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERAN; VETERANS HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; VETERANS HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865705653     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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