Deployment Health Surveillance Definition - MilitaryDictionary.org

deployment health surveillance

1.) The regular or repeated collection, analysis, archiving, interpretation, and distribution of health-related data used for monitoring the health of a population or of individuals, and for intervening in a timely manner to prevent, treat, or control the occurrence of disease or injury, which includes occupational and environmental health surveillance and medical surveillance subcomponents.

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Term Classification: logistics