Implementing Guidance for Deployment Health Surveillance

Abstract

This document provides technical guidance for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps on roles, responsibilities, and procedures for conducting Deployment Health Surveillance (DHS). Health Surveillance includes identifying risk factors and the population at risk, recognizing and assessing hazardous exposures, recommending and initiating specific countermeasures, and monitoring health outcomes. A system for conducting health surveillance includes a means of identifying health risks and then a means of collecting, transmitting, analyzing, reporting, and storing individual and population health data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA633021

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Respiratory Tract Diseases
  • Tickborne Diseases
  • Vaccines
  • Viruses
  • Wounds And Injuries
  • Zoonoses

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

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  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.