The modern-day office workplace is often accompanied by large amounts of sedentary time that can be detrimental to good health. This issue impacts many office workers, including service members and the Department of Defense workforce.

Since 2001, MSMR has published regular reports on the incidence of heat illness among U.S. active component service members. This annual update presents summaries of heat stroke and heat exhaustion case counts, incidence rates, and locations from 2019 through 2023.

This report summarizes heat stroke and heat exhaustion case counts, incidence rates, and locations among U.S. active component service members from 2019 through 2023.

This report summarizes Military Heath System (MHS) data from 2019 through 2023 on the numbers, frequency, rates, trends, demographics, geographic locations, as well as military characteristics of exertional rhabdomyolysis among U.S. active component service members.

This report summarizes Military Heath System data from 2008 through 2023 on the numbers, frequency, rates, trends, demographics, geographic locations, as well as military characteristics of exertional hyponatremia among U.S. active component service members.

This report provides a monthly updatea of Reportable Medical Events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet (DRSi) by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System. Reportable Medical Events are a critical tool for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the occurrence and spread of diseases of ...

Public health officials from across DHA Public Health will host several activities next week in observance of National Public Health Week, April 1–7.

The World Meteorological Organization, which monitors climate, weather, and water resources for the United Nations, has declared that 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history.

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This includes all-hazard biosurveillance and public health emergency management, or PHEM.

This study provides the first estimate of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis coverage in the U.S. military, defined as the proportion of the persons taking HIV PrEP out of the estimated number of persons who had indications for it, that is also comparable to U.S. civilian estimates. The population with indications for HIV PrEP was obtained from the ...

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides an overview of the 2023-2024 mid-season analysis of influenza vaccine effectiveness against medically-attended ambulatory influenza infections among U.S. military active component service members.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates against ambulatory influenza among Department of Defense TRICARE beneficiaries.

This is an introduction to a composite of three Surveillance Snapshots of Department of Defense data on mid-season influenza vaccine effectiveness that were presented at the 2024 VRBPAC meeting.

This study compared estimates of the prevalence of and risk factors for tobacco and nicotine use obtained from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey and Periodic Health Assessment survey. The HRBS and the PHA are important Department of Defense sources of data on health behavior collected from U.S. military service members.