Operational Medicine Research & Development (Air Force)
Abstract
This project area seeks to delineate more definitive patient care and treatment pertaining to Active Duty and beneficiary personnel in non-deployed settings. The sub-project areas include Clinical Patient Safety and Psychological Health and Resilience. The Psychological Health and Resilience sub-project area seeks to identify the sources of stress existing in a high operations tempo in-garrison healthcare staff in order to develop and transition countermeasures that provide or enable resilience. Other areas of interest include: translational research supporting the enhancement of patient education programs promoting healthy lifestyles that could impact the onset/prevention of conditions such as obesity and chronic diseases states and research to identify and validate risk variants impacting diseases such as autism.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- ee501f39ad2e6b6d1055289a45dc4d78