Comprehensive Health Surveillance

Abstract

Comprehensive health surveillance is an important element of force health protection (FHP) programs to promote, protect, and restore the physical and mental health of DoD personnel throughout their military service and employment, both in garrison and during deployment. This directive establishes policy and assigns responsibilities for routine, comprehensive health surveillance of all DoD personnel throughout their military service or DoD civilian employment. It establishes the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) as the single source for DoD-level health surveillance information and designates the Secretary of the Army as the DoD Executive Agent (EA) for the AFHSC in accordance with DoDD 5101.1 (Reference (c)).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 08, 2012
Accession Number
ADA639786

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Sciences
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Environmental Health
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Surveillance
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

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  • Medical or Health Care Field.
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