Strategies to protect the health of deployed U.S. forces : detecting, characterizing, and documenting exposures / Thomas E. McKone [and others], editors.
Material type:
TextSeries: Compass series (Washington, D.C.)Publication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 058527536X
- 9780585275369
- 0309515483
- 9780309515481
- Detecting, characterizing, and documenting exposures
- Soldiers -- Health and hygiene -- United States
- Soldiers -- Protection -- United States
- Soldiers -- Health risk assessment -- United States -- Methodology
- Environmental health
- Biological warfare -- Safety measures
- Chemical warfare -- Safety measures
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Foreign countries
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care
- Environmental Exposure
- Military Personnel
- United States
- HISTORY -- Military -- Biological & Chemical Warfare
- Armed Forces
- Armed Forces -- Medical care
- Biological warfare -- Safety measures
- Chemical warfare -- Safety measures
- Environmental health
- Soldiers -- Health and hygiene
- Soldiers -- Protection
- United States
- 355.3/45/0973 21
- UH603 .S756 2000eb
- 2000 J-917
- QT 140
Includes bibliographical references.
Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Technology and Methods for Detection and Tracking of Exposures to a Subset of Harmful Agents, Division of Military Science and Technology, Commission on Engineering and Tecnical Systems, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
"This is a report of a study supported by Contract DASW01-97-C-0078 between the Department of Defense and the National Academy of Sciences"--Title page verso.
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 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.
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