FORCE HEALTH PROTECTION - APPLIED RESEARCH

Abstract

This project funds research to support applied research directed toward the sustainment of a healthy force of Warfighters from accession through retirement. This research focuses on enhanced protection of Soldiers against health threats in military operations and training. Stressors that adversely affect individual Soldier health readiness are identified and studied to develop interventions that will protect Soldiers and improve their health and performance in stressful environments. This is follow-on research that extends and applies findings from over a decade of research on Gulf War Illnesses and other chronic multi-symptom illnesses that have suspected nerve and behavioral alterations due to environmental contaminants and deployment stressors. Key databases include the Millennium Cohort Study and the Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database. These databases allow us to evaluate interactions of psychological stress and other deployment and occupational stressors that affect Warfighter health behaviors. Force Health Protection applied research is conducted in close coordination with the Department of Veterans Affairs. This project contains no duplication with any effort within the Military Departments and includes direct participation by other Services working on Army projects. Research conducted in this project focuses on the following three areas: (1) Physiological Response and Blast and Blunt Trauma Models of Thoracic (chest) and Pulmonary (lung) Injuries (2) Millennium Cohort Research (3) Biomarkers of Exposure and Environmental Biomonitoring. Promising efforts identified in this project are further matured under PE 0603002A, project FH4. The cited work is consistent with the Director, Defense Research and Engineering Strategic Plan, the Army Modernization Strategy, and the Army Science and Technology Master Plan. Work in this project is performed by the US Army Center for Environmental Health Research, Fort Detrick, MD; the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), San Diego, CA; and the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), Natick, MA.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: FH2_0602787A_2_2040_PB_2012

Tags

Readers

• Gulf War Illness and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans.
• Mental Health of Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Risk Factors, Prevalence, Symptoms, and Treatment.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.