U.S. Army Medical Department Journal (April-June 2006)

The focus of this issue of the AMEDD Journal is Preventive Medicine. The journal contains the following articles Perspective, an overview of this issues articles, by MG George W. Weightman Prevention is the Best Way to Health, by BG Michael B. Cates The Evolution of Public Health Education in the US Army, 1893-1966, by COL Stephen C. Craig, MC, USA The Evolving Role of Environmental Science Officers and Environmental Engineers in the Medical Service Corps, by COL John J. Ciesla, MS, USA Army Epidemiology and Health Surveillance, by COL Bruno Petruccelli, MC, USA and Dr. Joseph Knapik, ScD Vector Control and Pest Management, by LTC Mustapha Debboun, MS, USA, et al. Field Preventive Medicine Challenges for the Future, by LTC William J. Sames, MS, USA, et al. Deployment Occupational and Environmental Health Risk Management, by COL Robert R. Eng, MS, USA and COL Ret Curtis W. Pearson, MSC, USAF Deployment Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance Enhancing the War Fighters Force Health Protection and Readiness, by Jeffrey S. Kirkpatrick, LTC Christine Moser, MS, USA, and Brad E. Hutchens, PE Making the Modern Army Public Health Nurse Establishing Essential Service Skills, by MAJ James A. Madson, MS, USA and LTC Bryan J. Alsip, MC, USA Force Health Protection through Laboratory Analysis and Health Risk Assessment, by MAJ Patterson W. Taylor, MS, USA, et al. and Bullis Fever A Fleeting Epidemic of Unknown Etiology, by LTC Michael J. Zapor, MC, USA.