Force Health Protection - Applied Research

Abstract

This project conducts research to support applied research directed toward the sustainment of a healthy Warfighters from accession through retirement. This research focuses on enhanced protection of Warfighters against health threats in military operations and training. Stressors that adversely affect individual Warfighter health readiness are identified and studied to refine interventions that will protect Warfighters 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 caused by 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) Millennium Cohort Research (2) Biomarkers of Exposure and Environmental Biomonitoring (3) Physiological Response and Blast and Blunt Trauma Models of Thoracic (Chest) and Pulmonary (Lung) Injuries Promising efforts identified in this project are further matured under Program Element 0603002A, Project FH4. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology, focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this project is performed by the United States Army Center for Environmental Health Research (USACEHR), Fort Detrick, MD; the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), San Diego, CA; and the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), Natick, MA. Efforts in this project support the Soldier Portfolio and the principal area of Combat Casualty Care.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: FH2_0602787A_2_2040_PB_2017

Tags

Readers

• Gulf War Illness and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans.
• Medical or Health Care Field.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.