This report details the steps taken to develop a timely, accurate, and comprehensive Navy fleet disease and injury surveillance capability, utilizing ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics), including the successes and challenges that will guide further refinement and expansion of this tool.

This analysis utilizes an updated case definition for non-Hodgkin lymphoma developed by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division, based on consultation with subject matter experts and previous literature, to establish non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence within the U.S. Armed Forces active component, from 2017 through 2023.

Knowledge of injury causes is essential for prevention. This article describes causes of injury for all U.S. service members, from 2016 through 2019, and identifies variations in injury cause coding over time, and by branch of military service, type of health care visit and facility, and diagnosis category.

This study applied the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division (AFHSD) case definition for the identification of malignant brain tumors among U.S. active service members to the dependent pediatric population of the active component of the U.S. Air Force, to determine the positive predictive value of this case definition for a pediatric population.

Reportable medical events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System are reported monthly in MSMR.

As part of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division, within the Public Health Directorate of the Defense Health Agency, MSMR offers a forum for peer-reviewed public health reports that are disseminated on a variety of digital platforms: published online at health.mil, the official website of the Military Health System, in addition to indexing on ...

This retrospective cohort study examined ovarian dysfunction diagnosis incidence among female active component service members in the U.S. military from 2014 to 2023 using medical encounter data from the Defense Medical Surveillance System.

This analysis measures the association of traumatic brain injury with medical readiness for active duty military service, which could inform future traumatic brain injury screening, referral, and patient management protocols.

This report presents the rates of maternal syphilis among pregnant women and congenital syphilis among newborns in the Military Health System beneficiary population from 2012 to 2022. Between 2012 and 2021, cases of congenial syphilis in the U.S. increased by 755%, and rates of maternal and congenital syphilis within the Military Health System ...

Reportable medical events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System are reported monthly in MSMR.

This report summarizes the numbers, types, and rates of incident mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members over a 5-year surveillance period, from 2019 through 2023, during which a total of 541,672 service members were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder.

This study assessed the incidence and incidence rate ratio of selected kidney events among U.S. active component service members that occurred from 31 days to six months after a COVID-19 test. Early evidence suggests that COVID-19 is linked to kidney-related events in older and hospitalized patients but has not been examined among a younger, healthy ...