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Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens Among Reserve Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2023

Image of 48359048. This Surveillance Snapshot provides data from 2023 on the illness and injury burdens among reserve component members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

7/1/2024

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Numbers of Medical Encounters, Individuals Affected, and Hospital Bed Days by Burden of Disease Major Category, Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2023. This graph presents a series of 25 paired vertical columns, with a corresponding individual marker for each pair of columns. Each grouping of columns and marker represents a major burden of disease category. This figure includes data for all health care provided by both military and civilian sources of care for reserve members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The first column in each pair represents the number of medical encounters attributable to a burden of disease major category among reserve component members in 2023. The second column in each pair represents the number of those individuals affected by that particular disease category. The corresponding marker depicts the number of hospital bed days attributable to that category. In 2023, the greatest number of medical encounters by reserve component members was for the injury or poisoning category, for which approximately 775,000 reserve component members sought care. The next two categories with the most medical encounters, approximately 550,000 each, were musculoskeletal diseases and mental health disorders. The most individuals, approximately 150,000 in both categories, required medical encounters for injury or poisoning and signs, symptoms and other ill-defined conditions. Mental health disorders required the greatest number of hospital bed days for reserve component members, around 27,000 bed days in 2023; maternal conditions required the second highest number of bed days, around 18,000.

Percentages of Medical Encounters and Hospital Bed Days by Burden of Disease Category, Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2023. This figure consists of two stacked vertical columns that compile the 17 leading major burden of disease categories among reserve component members who received care in 2023 from military and civilian sources combined. The first column depicts, medical encounters by percentages, and the second depicts hospital bed days, also by percentages, attributable to the leading major disease categories. Each column totals 100 percent, with an “All Others” category included at the top of each column. In 2023, the three morbidity-related categories that accounted for just over one half of all medical encounters for reserve component members were injury or poisoning, musculoskeletal diseases, and mental health disorders. The same three categories accounted for just under one half of hospital bed days in 2023.

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