Problem
Denial of rights to wounded military personnel
Other Names:
Refusal of payment of veterans' health costsNon-payment of soldiers' medical bills
Inadequate war injury benefits
Insufficient war disability treatment
Nature:
Up until 1994, the American Veterans Affairs department denied disability payments to veterans of the Korean War suffering late after-effects of frostbite on the grounds that they could not prove that they had suffered the frostbite during active service on the Choisin Reservoir, where temperatures in 1950 were around minus 36 degrees C.
Incidence:
18,000 American troops were stationed on the Choisin reservoir, and nearly all were known to have suffered frostbite.
Broader Problems:
Denial of rights to soldiersDenial of right to adequate medical careDenial of human rights in armed conflicts Related Problems:
FrostbiteInadequate military capabilityIll treatment of prisoners of war Strategies:
Improving health services following war Subject(s):
Commerce → CurrencyCommerce → Purchasing, supplying
Defence → Military
Defence → Military forces
Defence → Veterans
Defence → War
Health Care → Handicapped
Health Care → Health
Medicine → Medicine
Social Activity → Personnel
Social Activity → Welfare
Societal Problems → Accidents
Societal Problems → Deprivation
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST