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• Covers <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Service</strong> <strong>Support</strong><br />

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<br />

COMMANDER’S OVERVIEW<br />

• Discusses the Organization of the Joint Task Force Surgeon’s Office<br />

• Describes <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Service</strong> <strong>Support</strong> Planning<br />

• Covers <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Service</strong> <strong>Support</strong> Operational Considerations<br />

<strong>Health</strong> <strong>Service</strong> <strong>Support</strong><br />

<strong>Health</strong> service support<br />

(HSS) sustains the mental<br />

and physical well-being of<br />

people in order to<br />

enhance performance in<br />

the accomplishment of a<br />

military mission.<br />

Purpose<br />

<strong>Health</strong> service support (HSS) is related to three joint functions:<br />

sustainment, movement and maneuver, and protection. HSS<br />

promotes, improves, conserves, or restores health within a military<br />

system. HSS capabilities are employed across the range of military<br />

operations and include the ability to organize, train, and equip<br />

preceding deployment and enable the employment of physically<br />

fit personnel HSS. These capabilities span the operational<br />

environment from point of injury/illness to the appropriate<br />

capability of care.<br />

The purpose of HSS is to maintain the individual and group health<br />

needed to accomplish a military mission. The intent is to<br />

effectively and efficiently use medical capabilities and individual<br />

healthful practices to prevent and/or correct any human condition<br />

that would impair or preclude the joint force from achieving its<br />

objectives.<br />

Joint Functions and <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Service</strong> <strong>Support</strong> Capabilities<br />

Sustainment, protection,<br />

and movement and<br />

maneuver.<br />

Foremost is the role of HSS in sustainment: the provision of<br />

medical support required to maintain health during prolonged<br />

operations until successful accomplishment of the joint force<br />

objectives. HSS protection involves those measures taken to<br />

prevent hazards — natural environmental, occupational, or<br />

enemy-induced — from having an adverse effect on personnel.<br />

Finally, movement and maneuver for HSS includes the planning,<br />

routing, scheduling, and control of patients and attendant medical<br />

support over lines of communications and during operations.<br />

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