Three or more diagnosed mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)/concussions within a 12 month period.

Any member of the Armed Forces, civilian employee of the Department of Defense, or personal services contract employee under Title 10, United States Code, Section 1091 authorized by the Department of Defense to perform health care functions.  Also called DoD health care provider. (JP 1-02)

Any medical treatment facility or, dental treatment facility. This includes garrison clinics and such facilities in a military operational unit, ship, or aircraft, and any other person or organization outside of such facilities' workforce who furnishes, bills, or is paid for healthcare in the normal course  of business. This term includes occupationa...

Notes record (in any medium) by a health care provider who is a mental health professional documenting or analyzing the contents of conversation during a private counseling session or a group, joint, or family counseling session and that are separated from the rest of the individual's medical record.  Psychotherapy notes excludes medication prescript...

An executive information system whose database contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and medical events (e.g., hospitalizations, ambulatory visits, reportable diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus tests, acute respiratory diseases, and health risk appraisals) and longitudinal data on personnel and deployments.

Health surveillance conducted throughout Service members’ military careers and DOD civilian employees’ employment, across all duty locations, and encompassing risk, intervention, and outcome data. Such surveillance is essential to the evaluation, planning, and implementation of public health practice and prevention and must be closely integrat...

A system that serves FHP by countering infectious diseases. GEIS conducts prioritized surveillance and response for emerging, and re-emerging, infectious diseases within the military and in select foreign civilian populations through DOD overseas medical research laboratories. GEIS focuses on diseases that threaten U.S. forces and their families, includin...

The regular or repeated collection, analysis, archiving, interpretation, and dissemination of occupational and environmental health-related data for monitoring the health of, or potential health hazard impact on, a population and individual personnel, and for intervening in a timely manner to prevent, treat, or control the occurrence of disease or injury ...

A repository used for the identification, prevention, and control of diseases associated with military and DOD-EC service. The mission of the DODSR for medical surveillance is for future clinical diagnosis and sero-epidemiologic studies.

The regular or repeated collection, analysis, and interpretation of health related data and the dissemination of information to monitor the health of a population and to identify potential risks to health, thereby enabling timely interventions to prevent, treat, or control disease and injury.  It includes occupational and environmental health surveil...

The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data derived from instances of medical care or medical evaluation, and the reporting of population based information for characterizing and countering threats to a population’s health, well-being, and performance.

The physical region that includes the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, United States possessions and territories, and surrounding territorial waters and airspace.

For the purpose of this Instruction, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment.

Interventions targeted to Service members with COSR or indications of a potential mental health disorder, and to units that show signs that their mission effectiveness is being affected by combat or operational stressors.

A mental health professional with training and expertise in COSC management who consults with the Combatant Command Surgeon and the Combatant Commander about matters related to combat stress such as unit cohesion, unit morale, resilience, leadership, effective communication, and perceived mission importance. Completion of grade appropriate professional Mi...