Military Deployment Health Surveillance Policy and its Application to Special Operations Forces
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2004
Keywords
patient referral, surveillance, medical, military deployment, united states department of defense
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.7205/MILMED.169.1.1
Abstract
An evaluation research methodology was used to determine whether deployment health surveillance for Special Operations Forces conformed with Department of Defense policy directives for the specified target population. Data for this methodology were based on pre- and postdeployment health assessments as well as patient encounters recorded during deployments. The data represented 1,094 individual and unique Special Operations Forces members deployed to 12 different countries from October 2000 through December 2001. Results from the study suggested that military deployment health surveillance policy goals for predeployment medical referrals, patient data capture, and documentation during the deployment and postdeployment medical referrals were being poorly met when Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff mandates were applied to Special Operations Forces in an unconventional operations environment. Preliminary evaluation indicates that deployment health surveillance implementation could be improved with the introduction of policy awareness education, training, and technology.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Military Medicine, v. 169, issue 1, p. 1–6
Scholar Commons Citation
Hartman, Richard T.; Wolfson, Jay; and Yevich, Steven J., "Military Deployment Health Surveillance Policy and its Application to Special Operations Forces" (2004). Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications. 12.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/hpm_facpub/12
