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FM 8-55, Planning for Health Service Support, September 1994.

ADA402668

Publication Date	1998
Page Count	3
Abstract	The document describes guidance to health service support planners within a theater of operations. It presents accepted principles, practices, and procedures pertaining to health service support planning. The information is applicable across the spectrum of military operations. It describes the medical battlefield rules and their rationale which is the: (1) prevention of disease and injury, and (2) the concept that good medical care will increase the probability of trauma victim survival. Preventive medicine services are in Chapter II. Preventive medicine is described as the most effective, and least expensive means of providing the combat commander with the maximum number of healthy, combat-effective soldiers. The chapter focuses on the: (1) medical threat, (2) preventive medicine estimate, (3) preventive medicine plan, preventive medicine troop plan, and (5) echelons of preventive medicine service support.
Keywords	Wounds and injuries Medical services Health care facilities Trauma Preventive medicine Military operations Logistics support Military personnel Theater level operations Threats Battlefields Diseases Estimates Spectra Casualties Survival(Personnel) Military commanders Combat forces Adtdl(Army doctrine and training digital library)
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
Corporate Authors	Brooks Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Medical Dept. Center and School.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200222

FM 8-55, Planning for Health Service Support, September 1994.

FM 8-55, Planning for Health Service Support, September 1994.
ADA402668

Publication Date	1998
Page Count	3
Abstract	The document describes guidance to health service support planners within a theater of operations. It presents accepted principles, practices, and procedures pertaining to health service support planning. The information is applicable across the spectrum of military operations. It describes the medical battlefield rules and their rationale which is the: (1) prevention of disease and injury, and (2) the concept that good medical care will increase the probability of trauma victim survival. Preventive medicine services are in Chapter II. Preventive medicine is described as the most effective, and least expensive means of providing the combat commander with the maximum number of healthy, combat-effective soldiers. The chapter focuses on the: (1) medical threat, (2) preventive medicine estimate, (3) preventive medicine plan, preventive medicine troop plan, and (5) echelons of preventive medicine service support.
Keywords	Wounds and injuries Medical services Health care facilities Trauma Preventive medicine Military operations Logistics support Military personnel Theater level operations Threats Battlefields Diseases Estimates Spectra Casualties Survival(Personnel) Military commanders Combat forces Adtdl(Army doctrine and training digital library)
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
Corporate Authors	Brooks Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Medical Dept. Center and School.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200222