Effectiveness of Disease Control Measures in Military Operations

Abstract

Outbreaks of contagious disease in a military theater can pose significant challenges to commanders, who seek to balance the need to achieve military objectives with the need to protect the health of the force. Yet commanders and their medical advisors lack analytically based guidance for planning and executing measures to control outbreaks when baseline capabilities prove inadequate. To meet this need, IDA evaluated medical countermeasures, isolation, quarantine, and restriction of personnel movement as outbreak control measures within an operational theater.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1122166

Entities

People

  • Julia K. Burr
  • Lucas A. Laviolet
  • Robert L. Cubeta

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bacterial Infections And Mycoses
  • Countermeasures
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Environment
  • First Responders
  • Flow Network
  • Guidance
  • Health
  • Infection
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Influenza
  • Medical Countermeasures
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Operations
  • Poxviridae Infections
  • Quarantine
  • Sars
  • Virus Diseases
  • Viruses
  • Wound Infections

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.