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cord-318803-xpa49sxt	McFee, Robin B.	Gulf War Servicemen and Servicewomen: The Long Road Home and the Role of Health Care Professionals to Enhance the Troops' Health and Healing	2008-05-31		.txt	text/plain	24563	1457	53	From substance abuse, combat, infections, sexual abuse, and mental illness, troops about to be deployed to or returning from the Persian Gulf, as well as their families, face potentially significant medical, psychological and financial challenges. The following monograph describes and discusses many of the challenges our Persian Gulf troops will face in the hope it will better prepare civilian health care professionals provide appropriate services, address gaps in resources, promote collaboration between biomedical and psychosocial professional disciplines, and ultimately assist our patients to successfully reenter society. In the following sections we will discuss the changing nature of battlefield injuries and the impact on survivors and their families, the endemic illnesses of the Persian Gulf, approaches to PTSD and other threats to health, psychosocial issues, as well as emerging resources under development and yet to be realized for the care of our returning troops.	./cache/cord-318803-xpa49sxt.txt	./txt/cord-318803-xpa49sxt.txt