Defense Health Board: DoD Psychotropic Medication Prescription Practices and Complementary Alternative Medicine Use

This memorandum requests your continued support for the Department of Defense (DoD) Lifestyle Assessment Program (DLAP), a program that complements DoD’s Human Resources Strategic Plan by assessing Service members’ healthy lifestyle knowledge and choices. These behaviors affect short- and long-term well-being and greatly impact readiness and ...

In accordance with Section 1673 of the NDAA HR 4986, signed into law in January of 2008, the Secretary of Defense was instructed to establish a protocol for the pre-deployment assessment and documentation of the cognitive functioning of Service Members deployed outside the United States.

Section 723 of the FY 2009 NDAA (PL 110-417)

Section 1634(b) of the FY 2008 NDA (PL 111-181)

Section 712 of the FY 2010 NDAA

Update: Deployment Health Assessments, U.S. Armed Forces, April 2011 report. Since January 2003, peaks and troughs in the numbers of pre- and post-deployment health assessment forms transmitted to the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch generally corresponded to times of departure and return of large numbers of deployers. Between April 2006 and ...

H.R. 111-491, page 316, accompanying H.R. 5136

H.R 111-166, page 338, accompanying H.R. 2647

Section 731 of the FY 2007 NDAA

Explanatory Statement, page 370, accompanying H.R. 3326

Update: Deployment Health Assessments, U.S. Armed Forces, April 2011 report. Since January 2003, peaks and troughs in the numbers of pre- and post-deployment health assessment forms transmitted to the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch generally corresponded to times of departure and return of large numbers of deployers. Between April 2006 and ...

Section 716 of the FY 2006 NDAA

Section 717 of the FY 1996 NDAA (PL 104-106)

S.R. 111-20, pages 50-51, accompanying S. 1054