This report was conducted and published by S.W.A.N.: Service Women's Action Network. The full report can be found here: https://www.servicewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/hwwhs17_final.pdf
*"As the number of women serving our country grows, so too does the importance of understanding the contributors to their health and well-being."
*"Women who have served have a a 16% higher rate of arthritis, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, a 19% higher rate of COPD, and a 29% higher rate of functional impairment than those who have not served."
*"Women’s experiences in the military and challenges of adjusting to life after the military differ from men in important ways."
*Female military veterans were found to have a "significantly higher overall rates of mental illness including depression, any mental illness in the past year, and suicidal thoughts in the past year."
*"Women who have served report higher rates of chronic disease, mental illness, and insufficient sleep than their counterparts who have not served. Many of these mental health and chronic disease rates are also higher than those of men who have served as was revealed by the 2016 Health of Those Who Have Served Report.
*Some of the challenges female veterans face are significantly higher than the female civilian population. Some of these issues include insufficient sleep, cancer, arthritis, COPD, depression, suicide and functional impairment.