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All paid and unpaid persons working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to patients or to infectious materials including body substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated environmental surfaces, ...
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The process by which a person becomes protected or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine.
A single, uniform program, administered by the DHA, that the DoD Components will use to provide educational, public health, and clinical services to deliver and assess the effect of immunizations for eligible beneficiaries.
This program ...
Injury or degradation of functional capability sustained by personnel, caused by disease and non-battle injury or by enemy action.
The regular or repeated collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data and the dissemination of information to monitor the health of a population and to identify potential risks to health, thereby enabling timely interventions ...
All activities related to preventing OEH-related illnesses for DoD personnel. OEH includes, but is not limited to, IH, ergonomics, OEM, epidemiology, hearing conservation, radiation protection, OEH surveillance in military operations, ...
A military operation that is either designated by the Secretary of Defense as a contingency operation or becomes a contingency operation as a matter of law (Title 10, United States Code, Section 101[a][13]).
The movement of forces into and out of an operational area.
All illnesses and injuries not resulting from hostile action or terrorist activity or caused by conflict.
An event that may represent an inherent, significant threat to public health and military operations. These events have the potential to affect large numbers of people, to be widely transmitted within a population, to have severe or life ...
Includes the land area, internal waters, territorial sea, and airspace of the United States, including a. United States territories; and b. Other areas over which the United States Government has complete jurisdiction and control or has ...
Health-related activities and measures that are undertaken to assess and minimize health risks associated with deployment. Activities encompass the regular collection, analysis, interpretation, recording, archiving, and distribution of ...
The electronic medical record system used by the DoD; specifically, the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application or its successor.
Documents the OEH conditions found at a site (e.g., deployment site such as a base camp, bivouac site or outpost, main operating base or forward operating site, enduring location, or contingency location) beginning at or near the time it is ...
A geographic site designated by the DoD for strategic access and use to support U.S. security interests for the foreseeable future. The following types of sites are considered enduring for U.S. Government purposes: MOB; FOS; and ...
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