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Joins the care management and primary care behavioral health (PCBH) models of care so that behavioral health care facilitator (BHCF) (typically a nurse) and internal behavioral health consultant (IBHC) work together to provide behavioral ...
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Education offered to people with behavioral health and physical conditions about the causes of their condition, and the reasons why a particular treatment might be effective for reducing their symptoms.
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A population health-based model of care focused on all patient populations, where the medical and behavioral health providers share information regarding patients and there is a shared medical record, treatment plan, and standard of care. The ...
Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities that are required to perform assigned duties.
Overarching term that includes both food safety and food defense.
A program conducted by DoD veterinary or Military Services’ public health personnel to determine the vulnerability of an installation’s food and food service operations to natural or intentional contamination or destruction, ...
The application of food safety principles to ensure safe food handling, preparation, and storage of prepared food in establishments that serve meals to DoD patrons.
The hands-on sensory and, when indicated, laboratory evaluation of food and food products for wholesomeness, condition, tampering, and quality. Food inspection encompasses source, delivery, storage, processing, sale and issue. It excludes food ...
A program normally conducted jointly by veterinary and public health personnel to identify and mitigate food safety hazards for special events held off installation.
Small retail facilities under the control of DoD where the primary items for sale are packaged foods purchased for consumption outside the facility. Convenience stores may include shoppettes, mini-marts, or retail outlets. They may be equipped ...
The DoD veterinary services capability encompasses animal health and welfare and veterinary public health. Veterinary public health focuses on the animal health interface with human health and environmental health and is an essential part of ...
Protection measures necessary to identify, mitigate, or eliminate the risk from unintentional contamination.
A rapid food protection response to unexpected, imminent hazards, natural or manmade, that affect Department of Defense (DoD) feeding systems or affect those feeding systems with which DoD has written support agreements for response.
A recovering Service member’s spouse, child (including stepchildren, adopted children, and illegitimate children), parent or person in loco parentis, or sibling on invitational travel orders or serving as a non-medical attendee when ...
Protection measures necessary to identify and mitigate the threat of intentional contamination of food.
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