Women Warriors Have Special Health Needs, Researchers Report

Date Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2016

Category: Health Care - National

In 1993, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) initiated surveys and questionnaires to 3,700 women veterans and over 158,000 non-veteran women and continued to collect data over the following 20 years. The WHI study, "Older Women Veterans in the Women’s Health Initiative," results indicate that "women veterans are more at risk for lower life satisfaction, lung cancer, cognitive decline and hip fractures than non-veteran women." Additionally, they indicated "lower levels of self-perceived health, life satisfaction, social support, physical function and quality of life than their non-veteran counterparts and are more likely to reside in a residential living facility and were far less likely to have ever married.”

Read the full article at: Medill News Service