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Charles W. Hoge, MD Jennifer L. Auchterlonie, MS; Charles S. Millikan, MD Mental health problems, use of mental health services, and attrition from military service after returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. jamanetwork-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/202463

The article says soldiers from the army when they are deployment they need to see if they need health care when they come back. The article gives us studies the army soldiers and marines that completed the post deployment health assessment between a period and when they return from the operation ensuring freedom in Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and other locations. The health care utilization and the occupational outcomes were measured after of one year of deployment. The reading studies all about the soldiers that need health care after Deployment. My opinion is that the soldiers should be able to have health care if they need it. The soldiers risk their lives for us so we could have lives. Some Soldiers that come back from deployment may be dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, or other mental health problems. The health care will help them take care of these problems that they deal with. The authors credentials are good and detailed in the article. The authors writing style is easy to read and interesting. The authors purpose is Mental health problems, use of mental health services, and attrition from military service after returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. The authors are credible with what they are writing about. The author chose a good genre because it kept the audience engaged in the article. The fact that they talk about the soldier’s lifestyle when the soldiers come back after deployment is interesting. They also study the soldiers and make percentages of the studies of what is happening in the article like the prevalence of reporting a mental health problem was 19.1% among service members returning from Iraq compared with 11.3% after returning from Afghanistan and 8.5% after returning from other locations. Some of the soldiers have mental health problems because of combat experiences like seeing their friends die in front of them or seeing body parts flying everywhere and seeing explosions and hearing gun fire planes bombing buildings and more things. This will change you mentally and physically. In the article it says that 35 percent of Iraq war veterans accessed mental health services in the year after returning home; 12% per year were diagnosed with a mental health problem. More than 50% of those referred for a mental health reason were documented to receive follow up care although less than 10% of all service members who received mental health treatment were referred through the screening program. The soldiers need our help to get the health care they need.