Download or read book Defense Health Care Force Health Protection and Surveillance Policy Compliance Was Mixed But Appears Better for Recent Deployments written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall compliance with DOD s force health protection and surveillance policies for servicemembers who deployed in support of OIF varied by service, by installation, and by policy requirement. Army and Air Force compliance during OIF for the installations in our review appears much better compared to the installations included in our previous review7 of OEF and OJG. Installations we examined from the Marine Corps, on the other hand, generally had lower levels of compliance across the policy requirements we examined when compared to other services; however, we did not review medical records from the Marines or Navy in our previous review. Our review disclosed that the extent of policy compliance varied in the following areas: " Deployment health assessments. The Army and the Air Force installations were generally missing small percentages (less than 10 percent) of pre-deployment health assessments. In contrast, pre-deployment health assessments were missing for an estimated 63 percent8 of the servicemembers at one Marine Corps installation and for about 27 percent at the other Marine Corps installation reviewed. The Navy installation in our review was missing pre-deployment health assessments for 24 percent of the servicemembers. Post-deployment health assessments were completed for most servicemembers (95 percent or more) in our samples, except at one of the Marine Corps installations we visited. While almost all post-deployment health assessments for the services were completed within DOD required time frames except for one Army installation, many of the pre-deployment health assessments in our samples were not. Except for servicemembers at one of the two Marine Corps installations visited, a health care provider reviewed all but small percentages of the completed health assessments as required by DOD policy.
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care Force Health Protection and Surveillance Policy Compliance Was Mixed written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEFENSE HEALTHCAREForce HealthProtection andSurveillance PolicyCompliance WasMixed, but AppearsBetter for RecentDeployments
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by Randall B. Williamson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military servicemembers engaged in combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder. In Mar. '05 the DoD developed policies for the post-deployment health reassessment (PDHRA). DoD oversees the military services¿ compliance with PDHRA requirements through its deployment health assessment quality assurance program (DHAQAP). In June 2007, it was reported that DoD¿s oversight of its DHAQAP does not provide DoD or Congress with the info. needed to evaluate DoD and the military services¿ compliance with DHAQAP. This report discusses how well DoD¿s DHAQAP oversees the military services¿ compliance with the requirement that they ensure that servicemembers complete the PDHRA. Ill.
Download or read book Defense Health Care Comprehensive Oversight Framework Needed to Help Ensure Effective Implementation of a Deployment Health Quality Assurance Program written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DoD Health Care written by Cynthia A. Bascetta and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2007 included provisions regarding mental health concerns and traumatic brain injury (TBI). This report discusses: (1) DoD efforts to implement pre-deployment mental health screening; (2) how post-deployment mental health referrals are tracked; and (3) screening requirements for mild TBI. The author selected the Army, Marine Corps, and Army National Guard for the review. She reviewed documents and interviewed DoD officials and conducted site visits to 3 military installations where the pre-deployment health assessment was being conducted. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Benefits and Medical Care for Federal and U S Contractor Employees Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance of Deployed Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing need for warfighters for the Global War on Terrorism has meant longer and multiple deployments for soldiers. Medical readiness is essential to their performing needed duties, and an impairment that limits a soldier¿s capacities represents risk to the soldier, the unit, and the mission. Asked to review the Army¿s compliance with its guidance, this report examined the extent to which the Army is: (1) adhering to its medical and deployment requirements regarding decisions to send soldiers with medical conditions to Iraq and Afghanistan; and (2) deploying soldiers with medical conditions requiring duty limitations, and assigning them to duties suitable for their limitations. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Derek B. Stewart and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Personnel written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accountability During Contingency Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by Neal P. Curtin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, many servicemembers experienced health problems that they attributed to their military service in the Persian Gulf. However, a lack of servicemember health and deployment data hampered subsequent investigations into the nature and causes of these illnesses. Public Law 105-85, enacted in November 1997, required the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish a system to assess the medical condition of service members before and after deployments. GAO reported on (1) the Army's and Air Force's compliance with DOD's force health protection and surveillance requirements for servicemembers deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Central Asia and Operation Joint Guardian (OJG) in Kosovo and (2) the status of DOD efforts to correct problems related to the accuracy and completeness of databases reflecting which servicemembers were deployed to certain locations. (Defense Health Care: Quality Assurance Process Needed to Improve Force Health Protection and Surveillance (GAO-03-1041, Sept. 19, 2003)) GAO was asked to testify on its findings regarding the Army's and Air Force's compliance with DOD's force health protection and surveillance policies. For its report, GAO reviewed records for statistical samples of active duty servicemembers at four military installations. The Army and Air Force--the focus of GAO's review--did not comply with DOD's force health protection and surveillance policies for many active duty servicemembers, including the policies that they be assessed before and after deploying overseas, that they receive certain immunizations, and that health-related documentation be maintained in a centralized location. GAO's review of 1,071 servicemembers' medical records from a universe of 8,742 at selected Army and Air Force installations participating in overseas operations disclosed that 38 to 98 percent of servicemembers were missing one or both of their health assessments and as many as 36 percent were missing two or more of the required immunizations. GAO found that many servicemembers' medical records did not include health assessments found in DOD's centralized database. Similarly, DOD also did not maintain a complete, centralized database of servicemembers' health assessments and immunizations. Health-related documentation missing from the centralized database ranged from 0 to 63 percent for predeployment assessments, 11 to 75 percent for post-deployment assessments, and 8 to 93 percent for immunizations. There was no effective quality assurance program at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs or at the Army or Air Force that helped ensure compliance with policies. GAO believes that the lack of such a program was a major cause of the high rate of noncompliance. Continued noncompliance with these policies may result in servicemembers deploying with health problems or delays in obtaining care when they return. Finally, DOD's centralized deployment database is still missing the information needed to track servicemembers' movements in the theater of operations. By July 2003, the department's data center had begun receiving location-specific deployment information from the services and is currently reviewing its accuracy and completeness. GAO's report recommended that DOD establish an effective quality assurance program that will ensure that the military services comply with the force health protection and surveillance policies for all servicemembers. DOD agreed with the recommendation and outlined a number of actions the military services are already taking to implement their quality assurance programs. While we view these actions as responsive to our recommendation, the effectiveness of these actions to ensure compliance will depend on follow-through by DOD and the services.
Download or read book Defense health care medical surveillance improved since Gulf War but mixed results in Bosnia report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision Making Process for Veterans written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has long recognized and honored the service and sacrifices of its military and veterans. Veterans who have been injured by their service (whether their injury appears during service or afterwards) are owed appropriate health care and disability compensation. For some medical conditions that develop after military service, the scientific information needed to connect the health conditions to the circumstances of service may be incomplete. When information is incomplete, Congress or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may need to make a "presumption" of service connection so that a group of veterans can be appropriately compensated. The missing information may be about the specific exposures of the veterans, or there may be incomplete scientific evidence as to whether an exposure during service causes the health condition of concern. For example, when the exposures of military personnel in Vietnam to Agent Orange could not be clearly documented, a presumption was established that all those who set foot on Vietnam soil were exposed to Agent Orange. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee was charged with reviewing and describing how presumptions have been made in the past and, if needed, to make recommendations for an improved scientific framework that could be used in the future for determining if a presumption should be made. The Committee was asked to consider and describe the processes of all participants in the current presumptive disability decision-making process for veterans. The Committee was not asked to offer an opinion about past presumptive decisions or to suggest specific future presumptions. The Committee heard from a range of groups that figure into this decision-making process, including past and present staffers from Congress, the VA, the IOM, veterans service organizations, and individual veterans. The Department of Defense (DoD) briefed the Committee about its current activities and plans to better track the exposures and health conditions of military personnel. The Committee further documented the current process by developing case studies around exposures and health conditions for which presumptions had been made. Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans explains recommendations made by the committee general methods by which scientists, as well as government and other organizations, evaluate scientific evidence in order to determine if a specific exposure causes a health condition.
Download or read book Defense Health Care Improvements Needed in Occupational Environmental Health Surveillance During Deployments to Address Immediate Long Term Health Issues written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense health care quality assurance process needed to improve force health protection and surveillance written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
