Measures to promote, improve, or conserve the behavioral and physical well-being of Service members to enable to healthy and fit force, prevent injury and illness, and protect the force from health hazards.

Refers collectively to the Army National Guard of the United States, the Army Reserve, the Navy Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve at all times, including when the Coast Guard is operating as a Service of the Department of the Navy or when it is a Service in th...

Naturally occurring infectious diseases with high potential to adversely affect U.S. or coalition forces, particularly during deployment. This term may also be called infectious diseases of operational concern.

With respect to a member or former member of a uniformed service, means 

(A) the spouse; 

(B) the unremarried widow; 

(C) the unremarried widower; 

(D) a child who— 

(i) has not attained the age of 21; 

(ii) has not attained the age of 23, is enrolled in a full-time course of study at an institut...

A microorganism (or a toxin derived from it) that causes disease in personnel, plants, or animals or causes the deterioration of materiel.

A preparation that contains one or more components of a biological agent or toxin and induces a protective immune response against that agent when administered to an individual.

The administration of a vaccine to an individual for inducing immunity.

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 to prevent, treat, or control disease and injury.  It includes occupational and environmental health surveil...

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, engineering, and risk management of health hazards.

All illnesses and injuries not resulting from hostile action or terrorist activity or caused by conflict.

An overarching term encompassing more descriptive terms (such as area of responsibility and joint operations area) for geographic areas in which military operations are conducted.

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 threatening clinical manifestations, and to disrupt military training and deployment.

The process of reviewing relevant intelligence data, past hazard assessments, and other available information for the area of deployment to identify potential health threats to deploying personnel.  The preliminary hazard assessment should be accomplished prior to deployment to inform the content of the initial OEHSA.

Includes all medical and dental care documentation, including mental health care documentation, that has been recorded for that individual.  Information may be recorded and maintained in paper or electronic media.  Three principal component records maintained within the DOD health care system, each of which is a specific subset of the informatio...

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 CSL.  All three types of locations may be composed of more than one distinct site.