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 Defense health care improvements needed in occupational and environmental health surveillance during deployments to address immediate and longterm health issues written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, research and investigations into the causes of servicemembers' unexplained illnesses were hampered by inadequate occupational and environmental exposure data. In 1997, the Department of Defense (DOD) developed a military-wide health surveillance framework that includes occupational and environmental health surveillance (OEHS)--the regular collection and reporting of occupational and environmental health hazard data by the military services. GAO is reporting on (1) how the deployed military services have implemented DOD's policies for collecting and reporting OEHS data for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and (2) the efforts under way to use OEHS reports to address both immediate and long-term health issues of servicemembers deployed in support of OIF. GAO recommends that the Secretary of Defense improve deployment OEHS data collection and reporting and evaluate OEHS risk management activities. GAO also recommends that the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs (VA) jointly develop a federal research plan to address long-term health effects of OIF deployment. DOD plans to take steps to meet the intent of our first recommendation and partially concurred with the other recommendations. VA concurred with our recommendation for a joint federal research plan.

Download or read book Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance of Deployed Forces written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupational and environmental health surveillance of deployed forces : tracking toxic casualties : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, July 19, 2005.

Download or read book Defense Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, research and investigations into the causes of servicemembers' unexplained illnesses were hampered by inadequate occupational and environmental exposure data. In 1997, the Department of Defense (DOD) developed a military-wide health surveillance framework that includes occupational and environmental health surveillance (OEHS)--the regular collection and reporting of occupational and environmental health hazard data by the military services. GAO is reporting on (1) how the deployed military services have implemented DOD's policies for collecting and reporting OEHS data for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and (2) the efforts under way to use OEHS reports to address both immediate and long-term health issues of servicemembers deployed in support of OIF. GAO recommends that the Secretary of Defense improve deployment OEHS data collection and reporting and evaluate OEHS risk management activities. GAO also recommends that the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs (VA) jointly develop a federal research plan to address long-term health effects of OIF deployment. DOD plans to take steps to meet the intent of our first recommendation and partially concurred with the other recommendations. VA concurred with our recommendation for a joint federal research plan.

Download or read book Defense health care occupational and environmental health surveillance conducted during deployments needs improvement written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance of Deployed Forces Tracking Toxic Casualties Serial No 109 120 July 19 2005 109 1 Hearing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2006* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book AR 11 35 05 16 2007 DEPLOYMENT OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK MANAGEMENT Survival Ebooks written by Us Department Of Defense and published by Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AR 11-35 05/16/2007 DEPLOYMENT OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK MANAGEMENT , Survival Ebooks

Download or read book Deployment Force Protection and Health Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ntrp 4 02 9 U s Air Force Afttp 3 2 82 ip U s Army Atp 4 02 82 Occupational and Environmental Health Site Assessment April 2012 written by United States Government Us Navy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Navy NTRP 4-02.9 U.S. AIR FORCE AFTTP 3-2.82_IP U.S. ARMY ATP 4-02.82 Occupational And Environmental Health Site Assessment APRIL 2012 According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum MCM 0028-07 (Nov2007), Procedures for Deployment Health Surveillance, "force health protection (FHP) provides the conceptual framework for optimizing force health readiness and protecting Department of Defense (DOD) personnel from occupational and environmental health (OEH) threats associated with deployments and military Service." Deployment health surveillance is a critical component of health risk management and FHP. Deployment health surveillance includes identifying and assessing OEH threats, recognizing potential exposure pathways for deployed populations, documenting and reporting health risk, and implementing preventive measures to reduce the health risk posed by those OEH threats. The occupational and environmental health site assessment (OEHSA) is the key information organizing process and report that supports OEH risk management activities on military installations in an operational environment. The OEHSA documents environmental conditions, identifies potential OEH threats, guides OEH data collection activities and further risk assessments, and summarizes acute or immediate risk mitigation actions. Health risk assessment (HRA) and health risk management are critical parts of deployment health surveillance. The OEHSA is the first step of the process that supports data collection and risk assessments over time. HRAs anticipate, identify, prioritize, and assess health threats and compare residual risks across potential controls and countermeasures. OEHSAs are a key element of the HRA process and assist Service preventive medicine personnel to adequately support FHP and local commanders' risk management decisions concerning OEH threats

Download or read book Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U S Forces written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk management is especially important for military forces deployed in hostile and/or chemically contaminated environments, and on-line or rapid turn-around capabilities for assessing exposures can create viable options for preventing or minimizing incapaciting exposures or latent disease or disability in the years after the deployment. With military support for the development, testing, and validation of state-of-the-art personal and area sensors, telecommunications, and data management resources, the DOD can enhance its capabilities for meeting its novel and challenging tasks and create technologies that will find widespread civilian uses. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces assesses currently available options and technologies for productive pre-deployment environmental surveillance, exposure surveillance during deployments, and retrospective exposure surveillance post-deployment. This report also considers some opportunities for technological and operational advancements in technology for more effective exposure surveillance and effects management options for force deployments in future years.

Download or read book Occupational and Environmental Health Site Assessment Ntrp 4 02 9 Afttp 3 2 82 ip Atp 4 02 82 written by United States Government US Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this publication is to facilitate the implementation of deployment occupational and environmental health surveillance requirements outlined in Department of Defense instruction (DODI) 6490.03 (Aug2006), Deployment Health, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum MCM 0028-07 (Nov2007), Procedures for Deployment Health Surveillance. In addition, this publication is intended to provide a standardized methodology for the military Services to support organic preventive medicine assets in successfully accomplishing an OEHSA in various deployed environments. This publication is designed for use at the tactical level. The document supports and applies to preventive medicine personnel across all military Services that are preparing for and conducting OEHSAs at military deployment locations. Occupational and Environmental Health Site Assessment provides guidance to deployed Service preventive medicine personnel who plan to conduct occupational and environmental health site assessments (OEHSAs) on military installations in a theater operational environment. This publication provides specific tactical references to facilitate the execution of an OEHSA to identify and document occupational and environmental health (OEH) threat conditions that may affect the current and future health of deployed military personnel.

Download or read book Foundation for Integrating Employee Health Activities for Active Duty Personnel in the Department of Defense written by Gary Cecchine and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the Department of Defense (DoD) moves toward a more integrated employee health system, a foundation of information about the current system and requisite elements for such integration will be needed. The authors reviewed the research literature and DoD policy documents and interviewed DoD personnel to make several observations about the current state of safety and occupational health (SOH) arrangements in DoD. Currently, SOH policy cuts across several organizations at high levels in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and SOH programs are implemented by each of the military services. Recently, leadership attention has focused on safety, mostly apart from occupational health, as a separate priority. DoD and the services have made efforts to increase coordination, including both high-level formal councils and through informal relationships among SOH practitioners. Health promotion and wellness have received considerable attention within DoD through periodic health assessments and educational programs, yet these areas have not benefited from the same increased coordination. As DoD contemplates a more integrated approach, the authors considered what DoD might learn from civilian experience with integrating employee health activities. To address this, the authors reviewed civilian models of integration to identify promising approaches and practices that might inform DoD efforts. The review of activities related to employee health in DoD -- including industrial hygiene, safety, health promotion and wellness, occupational health, and its relatively mature health information technology infrastructure -- indicates that there might be little need for DoD to introduce new programs but more need to make use of the information generated by the existing programs in a more coordinated, integrated manner." -- provided by publisher.

Download or read book Defense Health Care written by Marcia Crosse and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gao 05 903t Defense Health Care written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-05-903T, DEFENSE HEALTH CARE: Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance Conducted during Deployments Needs Improvement

Download or read book Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U S Forces written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns about health effects that could be associated with their deployment and service during the war. Although similar concerns were raised after other military operations, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of chemical and biological (CB) agents and other harmful agents in theater and health symptoms reported by military personnel. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces which is one of the four two-year studies, examines the detection and tracking of exposures of deployed personnel to multiple harmful agents.

Download or read book Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U S Forces written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine years after Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War) ended in June 1991, uncertainty and questions remain about illnesses reported in a substantial percentage of the 697,000 service members who were deployed. Even though it was a short conflict with very few battle casualties or immediately recognized disease or non-battle injuries, the events of the Gulf War and the experiences of the ensuing years have made clear many potentially instructive aspects of the deployment and its hazards. Since the Gulf War, several other large deployments have also occurred, including deployments to Haiti and Somalia. Major deployments to Bosnia, Southwest Asia, and, most recently, Kosovo are ongoing as this report is written. This report draws on lessons learned from some of these deployments to consider strategies to protect the health of troops in future deployments. In the spring of 1996, Deputy Secretary of Defense John White met with leadership of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine to explore the prospect of an independent, proactive effort to learn from lessons of the Gulf War and to develop a strategy to better protect the health of troops in future deployments.

Download or read book Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U S Forces written by Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk management is especially important for military forces deployed in hostile and/or chemically contaminated environments, and on-line or rapid turn-around capabilities for assessing exposures can create viable options for preventing or minimizing incapaciting exposures or latent disease or disability in the years after the deployment. With military support for the development, testing, and validation of state-of-the-art personal and area sensors, telecommunications, and data management resources, the DOD can enhance its capabilities for meeting its novel and challenging tasks and create technologies that will find widespread civilian uses. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces assesses currently available options and technologies for productive pre-deployment environmental surveillance, exposure surveillance during deployments, and retrospective exposure surveillance post-deployment. This report also considers some opportunities for technological and operational advancements in technology for more effective exposure surveillance and effects management options for force deployments in future years.