Deployment Health

Abstract

This Department of Defense instruction implements policies and prescribes procedures for deployment health activities for Joint and Service-specific deployments to monitor, assess, and prevent Disease and Injury (DI) to control or reduce Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH) risks; to document and link OEH exposures with deployed personnel, including exposures to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) warfare agents; and to record the daily locations of deployed personnel.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 11, 2006
Accession Number
ADA640298

Entities

Organizations

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

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Deployment
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hygiene
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Risk
  • Therapy
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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