Health Care for Military Servicewomen Select Assessments

Female service-members are serving in more complex occupational specialties and are being deployed to combat operations, potentially leading to increased health risks. Similar to their male counterparts, female service-members must maintain their medical readiness; however, they have unique health care needs that require access to gender-specific services. This text examines the extent that the Department of Defense's (DoDs) policies for assessing individual medical readiness include the unique health care issues of female service-members.