title: Advocating for Deployed Women Veterans' Health Differences, Difficulties, and Disparities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The preceding article presented a glimpse of deployed women veterans, their military culture, and their experiences in the Global War on Terror (Iraq and Afghanistan) to assist civilian nurses to gain significant rapport and provide important culturally sensitive care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Pertinent literary sources were reviewed to gather applicable data about the problem.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A confirmatory answer from the assessment question of "Have you served in the military?" and the use of the Military Health History Pocket Card for Clinicians (available at http://www.va.gov.oaa/pocketcard) will assist with revealing possible health risks from the increased amounts of military men and women veterans seeking (and/or returning to) a variety of community-based health services. This article about deployed women veterans examines their specific health differences (e.g., research literature, post-traumatic stress disorder, and military sexual trauma), difficulties (e.g., reproductive, gynecologic, urinary, suicide), and gender disparities (varied treatment patterns).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Understanding these gender situations, civilian nurses can better advocate with increasing evidence-based decisions that their physical and behavioral responses were different from their male counterparts. Continual assessment, knowledgeable care, ongoing literature review, interdisciplinary health team development, and the presence of resourceful community agencies should be a significant part of their holistic care. Conard Armstrong.
authors.affiliation: Van Buren, AR.
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Conard
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX.
authors.forename: Myrna L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Armstrong
keywords: Afghanistan; Global War on Terror; Gulf War I; Iraq; PTSD; Vietnam; disparity; gender; menstruation; military sexual trauma; suicide; urinary; woman veteran