Introduction
Access to quality care can mean everything to healthy living for individuals in a community. Veterans living in rural areas are no exception and in particular make up an extraordinary demographic that often have specialized mental and health care needs due to various war traumas. (Rural Health, 2016) states that “there are 22 million Veterans nationwide, with 5.3 million who live in rural communities.” (Rural Health, 2016) continues that “fifty-seven percent of these rural Veterans are enrolled in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system.” (Rural Health, 2016) also asserts that “between fiscal years 2006-2014, there was a seven percent increase in VA-enrolled rural Veterans.” It is important to assess this segment of the population’s care due to the fact that if left untreated their needs will spiral out of control and harmfully affect families and communities. Also if the care they receive is inadequate or flawed, it could make their situation worse. Rural areas are well known to be lacking in quality and state of the art resources, therefore it’s important to evaluate veteran’s perceptions regarding their care resources to enhance and advance rural social work practice.
Problem Formulation …show more content…
Thus, the problem formulation can best be summed up as how does one build a sturdy social impact structure that meets the highest level conditions of collective impact for Impact Lufkin? The research presented in this paper utilizing collective impact will specifically look at veterans residing in this area and how they feel about their access to quality care that they need. Their families will also be assessed to weigh in on this particular health care issue as well since military families are often heavily involved in the care and well being of veteran family