Military Health System (MHS)

Date of Publication:

10/4/2004

Definition:

A world-class health system that supports the military mission by fostering, protecting, sustaining and restoring health.  It also provides the direction, resources, health care providers, and other means necessary for promoting the health of the beneficiary population. These include developing and promoting health awareness issues to educate customers, discovering and resolving environmentally based health threats, providing health services, including preventive care and problem intervention, and improving the means and methods for maintaining the health of the beneficiary population, by constantly evaluating the performance of the healthcare services system.