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Surveillance snapshot: Illness and injury burdens among reserve component members of the U.S. Coast Guard, 2024

Image of 89097623. This Surveillance Snapshot provides 2024 data on the burdens of illness and injury among reserve component members of the U.S. Coast Guard.

9/1/2025

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FIGURE 1. Numbers of Medical Encounters, Individuals Affected and Hospital Bed Days, by Burden of Disease Major Category, Coast Guard Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2024. 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 2024. 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. The left vertical, or y-, axis measures both the number of medical encounters and individuals affected, in units of 1,000, from zero to 7,000. The right vertical, or y-, axis measures the number of hospital bed days, in units of 50, from zero to 350. The segments of the horizontal, or x-axis, each represent a burden of disease major category. In 2024, the greatest numbers of medical encounters by Coast Guard reserve members were attributable to three categories: injury, mental health disorders, and musculoskeletal diseases; these leading three categories for medical encounters ranged from just under 7,000 to just under 5,500. The most individuals, just under 1,500 in both categories, required approximately 7,000 and 3,000 medical encounters for injury 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 under 225 bed days in 2024; maternal conditions required the second highest number of bed days, just over 150.

FIGURE 2. Percentages of Medical Encounters and Hospital Bed Days by Burden of Disease Category, Coast Guard Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2024. 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 2024 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. The vertical, or y-, axis measures the percentage of the total, in units of 10, from zero to 100 percent. In 2024, the three morbidity-related categories that accounted for just over one half of all medical encounters for Coast Guard reserve component members were injury, mental disorders, and musculoskeletal diseases. The same three categories accounted for a slightly higher total percentage of hospital bed days than that of medical encounters in 2024, but the mental disorder category constituted double the percentage of hospital bed days attributable than it did for medical encounters.

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