Bridges Davin, Bosetti Timothy
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine - Europe Deployment Environmental Surveillance Program.
US Army Med Dep J. 2009 Apr-Jun:76-80.
Occupational and environmental health hazards can seriously impact the mission and erode public confidence in the military's ability to protect US personnel. With any forward operating base, it is critical to establish a comprehensive base camp assessment program to optimize health readiness and protect deployed Department of Defense personnel from occupational and environmental health hazards. It is an ongoing, never-ending duty to educate and perform sanitary inspections as well as water, soil, and air surveillance. Establishing a base camp assessment program for a forward operating base is critical to ensure continuous monitoring when the location does not have a permanent environmental science officer or preventive medicine specialist onsite. The specific goal of the base camp assessment program is to reduce disease and nonbattle injury. Lessons-learned have shown the importance of accurate reporting and interpretation of environmental health assessments to reduce disease and nonbattle injury.
职业和环境健康危害会严重影响任务执行，并削弱公众对军队保护美国人员能力的信心。对于任何前沿作战基地而言，建立全面的营地评估计划对于优化健康准备状态以及保护部署的国防部人员免受职业和环境健康危害至关重要。开展教育、进行卫生检查以及水、土壤和空气监测是一项持续不断、永无止境的职责。当前沿作战基地所在地没有常驻环境科学官员或预防医学专家时，为其建立营地评估计划对于确保持续监测至关重要。营地评估计划的具体目标是减少疾病和非战斗损伤。经验教训表明，准确报告和解读环境健康评估对于减少疾病和非战斗损伤至关重要。
