The DOD-managed health care program for active duty military, active duty service families, retirees and their families, and other beneficiaries.

A person eligible for health care services under Chapters 47 and 55 of title 10, United States Code

A sick, injured, wounded, or other person requiring medical or dental care or treatment.

The program established pursuant to Sections 1074(c), 2559, and chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code to create by regulation, an eligibility for health care services in MTFs as well as dental treatment facilities for individuals who have no such eligibility pursuant to Sections 1074(c), 2559, and chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code.

A coordinated and operational system of Federal department or agency-sponsored laboratory networks that provide timely, high quality, and interpretable results for early detection and effective consequence management of acts of terrorism and other events requiring an integrated laboratory response.

A diverse national and international laboratory network of local, State, and Federal public health, hospital-based, food testing, veterinary and environmental testing laboratories that provide rapid detection assays and laboratory diagnostics and the capacity to respond to biological and chemical terrorism and other public health emergencies. The LRN is a...

A group composed of one senior policy member from each Federal department or agency participating in the ICLN. The JLC provides advice to senior Federal government officials with the objective of ensuring that the appropriate strategy and funding are in place for effective laboratory testing for detection and response to health and national security emerg...

The NCG is under the direction of the JLC and is a group composed of senior technical and program representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, DOD, Department of Justice, Department of State, and each network represented in the ICLN. The NCG develops and proposes policies and procedures and helps carry out the operations of the ICLN through a...

Naturally occurring – well characterized or emerging.

The processes by which living organisms obtain food and use it for growth, metabolism, and repair. Its stages include ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, assimilation, and excretion. The science that deals with food and nourishment, including dietary guidelines, food composition, and the roles that various nutrients have in maintaining health.

Products voluntarily introduced into the body that are not defined strictly as food or dietary supplements. Examples include functional foods (any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients) and transdermal air- and sea-sickness and testosterone patches.

A product (other than tobacco) that is intended to supplement a diet that bears or contains one or more of these dietary ingredients: a vitamin; a mineral; an herb or other botanical; an amino acid; a dietary substance for use by humans to supplement the diet by increasing the total daily intake of that substance; or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent...

A sentinel event (SE) is a patient safety event (not primarily related to the natural course of the patient’s illness or underlying condition) that reaches a patient and results in any of the following:     

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The relocation of forces and materiel to desired operational areas. Deployment encompasses all activities from origin or home station through destination, specifically including intra-continental United States, inter-theater, and intra-theater movement legs, staging, and holding areas.

A deployment that is limited to outside the continental United States, over 30 days in duration, and in a location with medical support from only non-fixed (temporary) military medical treatment facilities.  It is a deployment in which the relocation of forces and materiel is to an operational area in which a contingency is or may be occurring.