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Compensation and wellness: a conflict for veterans' health
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Australian Health Review
- Article date:
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Ellis, Niki; Mackenzie, Alison; Mobbs, Robyn
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Copyright informationCopyright Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association May 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
In Australia greater attention is being given to health determinants, and the dominance of treatment in health policy and budgets is giving away some ground to prevention, health promotion, rehabilitation and disability management. This creates a dilemma for compensation systems: should the inclusion criteria be broadened to match the new thinking or should a narrower definition of "disease, injury or death" be retained? This issue is explored in the context of war syndromes among veterans. While veterans experience symptoms more frequently and more severely than military and community controls, their patterns of symptoms are not unique. Current compensation and benefit programs ...