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

Image of 48385899. This annual summary article uses several health care burden measures to quantify the impacts in 2023 of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard.

7/1/2024

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Numbers of Medical Encounters, Individuals Affected, and Hospital Bed Days by Burden of Disease Major Category, Coast Guard 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 care provided by both military and civilian sources of care for reserve component members of the U.S. Coast Guard. The first column in each pair represents the number of medical encounters attributable to a burden of disease major category among Coast Guard reserve 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 numbers of medical encounters by Coast Guard reserve members were attributable to three categories: injury or poisoning, mental health disorders, and musculoskeletal diseases; these leading three categories for medical encounters ranged from approximately 6,750 to around 5,250. The most individuals, approximately 1,400 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 Coast Guard reserve members, at just over 300 bed days in 2023; maternal conditions required the second highest number of bed days, approximately 180.

Percentages of Medical Encounters and Hospital Bed Days by Burden of Disease Major Category, Coast Guard 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 Coast Guard 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 Coast Guard reserve component members were injury or poisoning, mental health disorders, and musculoskeletal diseases. The same three categories accounted for a higher total percentage of hospital bed days in 2023, but the mental health disorder category constituted more than double the percentage of hospital bed days attributable than it did for medical encounters.

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