Defense Health Care: Medical Surveillance Improved Since Gulf War, but Mixed Results in Bosnia.

Abstract

A military medical surveillance system that collects, analyzes, and disseminates health information facilitates DOD's ability to intervene in a timely manner to address health care problems experienced by military personnel. DOD believes such a system is one of the principal means to ensure a fit and healthy force and to prevent disease and injuries from degrading waffighting capabilities. Based on our review of the Presidential Advisory Committee and the Institute of Medicine reports and discussions with DOD officials, for the purposes of tnis report we identified four major elements of a military medical surveillance system, as shown in table 1.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA326458

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Surveillance

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Medical or Health Care Field.