GENDER ISSUES: Medical Support for Female Soldiers Deployed to Bosnia

Abstract

At your request, we are reviewing various issues pertaining to the treatment of men and women in the armed services. This report addresses your question concerning whether adequate medical services were available to servicemembers deployed to the field. In this report, we have focused on female-specific medical services and health-related issues for Army personnel serving in the ongoing U.S. peace operation in Bosnia Specifically, we (1) determined the availability of data collected on female soldiers' health care needs in Bosnia and (2) obtained the views of health care officials and female soldiers on female-specific medical services and health-related issues in Bosnia

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA360710

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Personnel
  • Combat Support Hospitals
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Infection
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Pain
  • Personnel Management
  • Physicians
  • Therapy
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Strategic Security Studies