She was thereData Visualization

IM241November 2012Lauren Watkins

Company: The VA The VA Medical Centers have recently added women’s clinics. These are clinics that focus on female Veteran’s medical issues only. The Military has been male dominated not only in amount of participants, but in the culture and focus. Female Service Members (SM) and Veterans are coming home with issues specific to their gender. Females have been grouped in with the male population of the Military, but recently the Military and the VA are realizing that the issues facing females are either being over looked, ignored or just not understood. The revolution to create better care for female SMs is just starting. This includes uniforms and gear, and medical and psychological treatment specific the female body and mind. Problem: The focus on females Veterans is just beginning. There has been much research done. This information needs to be disseminated to health care providers and other employees of the VA. They need to understand the differences in female Vets and nonvets and in females Vets and male Vets. Opportunity: There is an opportunity to design the information is a way that helps these employees understand the differences and obstacles to create better care for our female Veterans. The more they know, the more they can help. Solution: The solution is to gather data about female Veterans, female nonveterans and male Veterans. Graphs, charts and other information will be displayed in a poster for the VA offices and an interactive form for the VA website. The information will show the differences between the groups, the obstacle female Vets have and ways VA employees and healthcare providers can help.

It’s our job to give her the best care anywhere.

www.womenshealth.va.gov08/2012 Poster 10-386

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which oneis the veteran?Both.It’s our job to give every vet the best care anywhere.

learn more at www.womenshealth.va.gov

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2001 2036Diane Kay C orcoran, US Army Nurses C orps, South V ietnam

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sources: National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics. Americaʼs Women Veterans: Military Service History and VA Benefit Utilization Statistics. National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, Public Use Microdata Sample, 2009. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration, Annual Benefits Report, 2011. Corcor-an and diary images from The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, University of North Carolina Library, http://library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/. Hill photo credit: ADEK BERRY/AFP/GettyImages). McCullough, Christopher, Sgt. "Female Engagement Teams: Who They Are and Why They Do It." Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. DVIDS - News, 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 21 Nov. 2012. <http://www.dvidshub.net/news/92477/fe-male-engagement-teams-who-they-and-why-they-do>.

Post Traumatic Stress DisorderLower back painMigraineMajor depressive disorderPartial hysterectomy

Top 5 Female Conditions

#3 for al l Vets

Female Vet ProjectionFemale Vet Population

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Nancy Harkness Love, Director, Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron,1942 or later

Diane Kay C orcoran (b. 1946) of Rochester, New York, served in the Army Nurse C orps (ANC) from 1969-1992. She served at many instal lations during her career including at the 24th Evac-uation Hospital in Long Binh, V ietnam; Bad Kreunach, Germany; the 86 C ombat Support Hospital at Fort Campbel l, Kentucky; Fort Hood, Texas; and Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, C ol-orado. Her last assignment was Chief, Nursing Administration at the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, GermanyC orcoran retired in September 1992 with the rank of C olonel.

Michel le Hil l, US Marine GySgt , Female Engagement Team, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, June 6, 2012.

Member of Female Engagement Team (FET ), US Marine GySgt Michel le Hil l from the 1st battalion 7th Marines Regiment takes part in a patrol together with Afghanistan National Army (ANA) soliders in Sangin in Helmand Province on June 6, 2012. Male Sol-diers are not al lowed to speak or look at Afghan owmen.. FET is comprised of volunteer female members of appropriate rank, experi-ence and maturity to develop trust-based and enduring relation-ships with the Afghan women they encounter on patrols.

Lauren Watkins | 2012 | IM45 | Art Institute of Seattle

Diane Kay Corcoran Michelle HillNancy Harkness LoveNancy Love qualified as the first female pilot in the Army Air Forces (AAF) on September 7, 1942. Three days later, she emerged on the national scene when Secretary of War Henry Stimson an-nounced her appointment to organize and lead a new “Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron”–the WAFS–in the Ferrying Divi-sion of the AAF’s Air Transport C ommand (ATC). Over the fol-lowing weeks, she, and 27 other highly experienced women pilots, joined the Air Transport C ommand’s 2nd Ferrying Group and made history as the first women pilots to f ly operational missions for the U.S. armed forces.

Bibliography

IM241 | November 2012 | Lauren Watkins

Census Bureau, American Community Survey, Public Use Microdata Sample, 2009. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration, Annual Benefits Report, 2011.

Corcoran and diary images from The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, University of North Carolina Library, http://library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/.

Hill photo credit: ADEK BERRY/AFP/GettyImages).

McCullough, Christopher, Sgt. "Female Engagement Teams: Who They Are and Why They Do It." Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. DVIDS - News, 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 21 Nov. 2012.

<http://www.dvidshub.net/news/92477/female-engagement-teams-who-they-and-why-they-do>.

National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics. Americaʼs Women Veterans: Military Service History and VA Benefit Utilization Statistics. National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics,

Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.. U.S.

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