Public Health

Publications & Reports on Military Exposures

VA has developed newsletters, reports, and other publications for Veterans, the public and health care providers on the following topics:

• Environmental Health Registries
• Agent Orange
• Military Exposures & Your Health
• Gulf War
• Operations Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn
• Airborne Hazards and Burn Pits
• Radiation
• Depleted Uranium
• Camp Lejeune
• Project 112/Project SHAD
• War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) Resources
• Guides for Clinicians

Environmental Health Registries

Environmental Health Registry Evaluations for Veterans fact sheet (PDF) Overview of registry programs for Veterans who may have been exposed to certain environmental hazards during their military service, including the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry, Agent Orange Registry, Gulf War Registry, Depleted Uranium Follow-Up Program, Ionizing Radiation Registry, and Toxic Embedded Fragment Surveillance Center.

VA Environmental Health Registry Programs and Evaluations for Veterans - Information for Providers Fact Sheet (PDF)

Agent Orange

View Agent Orange publications, including newsletters, posters, and reports.

Latest Newsletter: Agent Orange Newsletter 2024

Military Exposures & Your Health

View the Military Exposures & Your Health newsletter. This newsletter replaces the Gulf War Newsletter and Post-9/11 Vet Newsletter and is for Veterans who served from 1990 to the present and their families.

Latest Newsletter: Military Exposures & Your Health Newsletter - Issue #14

Gulf War

• Gulf War Illness: Information for Veterans Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Gulf War Illness: A Guide for Veteran Health Care Providers Fact Sheet (PDF)

View more Gulf War publications, including newsletters, posters, and reports.

Newsletter Gulf War Newsletter 2019

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Operations Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn

View OEF/OIF/OND exposures publications, including newsletters, posters, and clinical guides.

Newsletter Post-9/11 Vet 2018

 

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Airborne Hazards and Burn Pits

• Airborne Hazards Concerns: Information for Veterans Fact sheet (PDF)

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Radiation

• Ionizing Radiation Information for Health Care Providers  Fact sheet (PDF)
• Ionizing Radiation Information for Veterans and their Families Fact sheet (PDF)

View more radiation publications, including newsletters, brochures, and a clinical guide.

Newsletter Ionizing Radiation Review March 2012

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Depleted Uranium

Depleted Uranium (DU) Information for Veterans and their Families Fact Sheet (PDF)

Toxic Embedded Fragment Surveillance Center – Information for Veterans Fact sheet (PDF) 

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Camp Lejeune

Veteran and Family Health & Disability Benefits Fact sheet (PDF)

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Project 112/Project SHAD

 

View  more information about Project 112/Project SHAD publications including fact sheets.

 

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War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) Resources

• WRIISC Fact sheets
  
• WRIISC Advantage Newsletter

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Guides for Clinicians

These guides help health care providers care for Veterans with military exposure concerns.

• VA Environmental Health Registry Programs and Evaluations for Veterans - Information for Providers Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Gulf War Illness: A Guide for Veteran Health Care Providers Fact Sheet (PDF)