Accession Number:

AD1122166

Title:

Effectiveness of Disease Control Measures in Military Operations

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Research Note]

Corporate Author:

INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA

Personal Author(s):

• Burr, Julia K.
• Cubeta, Robert L.
• LaViolet, Lucas A.

Report Date:

2020-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

2

Abstract:

Outbreaks of contagious disease in a military theater can pose significant challenges to commanders, who seek to balance the need to achieve military objectives with the need to protect the health of the force. Yet commanders and their medical advisors lack analytically based guidance for planning and executing measures to control outbreaks when baseline capabilities prove inadequate. To meet this need, IDA evaluated medical countermeasures, isolation, quarantine, and restriction of personnel movement as outbreak control measures within an operational theater.

Descriptors:

• diseases and disorders
• medical personnel
• sars
• environment
• flow network
• medical countermeasures
• military operations
• infection
• quarantine
• virus diseases
• viruses
• wound infections
• bacterial infections and mycoses
• countermeasures
• first responders
• guidance
• health
• infectious diseases
• influenza
• poxviridae infections

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]