Strategies to protect the health of deployed U.S. forces : assessing health risks to deployed U.S. forces : workshop proceedings / Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

Compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--Health and hygiene--United States--Congresses.

Soldiers.

Soldiers--Protection--United States--Congresses.

Soldiers--Health risk assessment--United States--Methodology--Congresses.

Environmental health--Congresses.

Environmental health.

Biological warfare--Safety measures--Congresses.

Biological warfare.

Chemical warfare--Safety measures--Congresses.

Chemical warfare.

United States--Armed Forces--Medical care--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Armed Forces--Foreign countries--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 184 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Assessing health risks to deployed U.S. forces

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2000.

Summary:

Risk management is especially important for military forces deployed in hostile and/or chemically contaminated environments, and on-line or rapid turn-around capabilities for assessing exposures can create viable options for preventing or minimizing incapaciting exposures or latent disease or disability in the years after the deployment. With military support for the development, testing, and validation of state-of-the-art personal and area sensors, telecommunications, and data management resources, the DOD can enhance its capabilities for meeting its novel and challenging tasks and create technologies that will find widespread civilian uses. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces assesses currently available options and technologies for productive pre-deployment environmental surveillance, exposure surveillance during deployments, and retrospective exposure surveillance post-deployment. This report also considers some opportunities for technological and operational advancements in technology for more effective exposure surveillance and effects management options for force deployments in future years.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Background""; ""Collection and Use of Personal Exposure and Human Biological-Marker Information for Assessing Risks to Deployed U.S. Forces in Hostile Environments""; ""Characteristics of the Future Battlefield and Deployment""; ""The Nature of Risk Assessment and Its Application to Deployed U.S. Forces""; ""Future Health Assessment and Risk-Management Integration for Infectious Diseases and Biological Weapons for Deployed U.S. Forces""; ""Approaches for Using Toxicokinetic Information in Assessing Risk to Deployed U.S. Forces""

""Health Risks and Preventive Research Strategy for Deployed U.S. Forces from Toxicological Interactions Among Potentially Harmful Agents""""Appendix Biographical Information on Commissioned Authors""

Notes:

Papers were presented at a workshop on Jan. 28-29, 1999 in Washington, D.C.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182).

ISBN:

9780309172530

0309172535

9780309515429

0309515424

OCLC:

923259963