Accession Number:

AD1038651

Title:

Deployment Health Centers Review, 2016-2017

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Defense Health Agency Falls Church United States

Personal Author(s):

• Anderson,George K
• Jacobs,Lenworth Jr.
• Blakely,Craig H.
• Jenkins,Donald
• Blakely,Craig H.
• Carroll,Bonnie
• Lane,H.
• Dickey,Nancy W
• Lazarus,Jeremy
• Franks,Frederick
• Lee,Vivian S.
• Gordon,Steven M.
• Myers,Richard
• Groopman,John
• Martin,Kathleen
• Higginbotham,Eve J
• Poland,Gregory
• Hovda,David A.
• Yamada,Tadataka

Report Date:

2017-08-21

Pagination or Media Count:

128.0

Abstract:

The Defense Health Board DHB, previously known as the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, was operationalized to serve as a public health advisory body for the DoD Department of Defense Research and Clinical Centers for Deployment Health.1 The DHB has completed several reviews of the Deployment Health Centers DHCs, commencing with an initial review directed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs ASDHA in September 2002.

Descriptors:

• military personnel
• injury prevention
• infectious diseases
• vaccines
• therapeutics
• traumatic stress disorder
• depression
• military medicine
• medical personnel
• health services
• civilian personnel
• brain injuries

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE