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

facilities, and information and the organizational enabling capacity to deliver HSS. All seven<br />

care capabilities are requisite to sustained health and are mutually supportive to that purpose.<br />

Each capability, however, has unique attributes that can be identified, improved, and applied to<br />

attain the desired well-being of the joint force.<br />

4. Policy and Resource Acquisition Capability<br />

All HSS capabilities are dependent on sound policy and sufficient resource acquisition.<br />

Policy provides the framework from which the HSS community derives the direction and identifies<br />

the requisite people, materiel, facilities, and information to promote, improve, conserve, or restore<br />

well-being. With policy as the guide, resource acquisition occurs through planning, programming,<br />

budgeting, and disbursement of money. This Title 10 US Code (USC) activity is foundational to<br />

the HSS community’s capability to organize, train, and equip sustainment.<br />

5. Prevention and Protection Capability<br />

a. HSS can support the warfighter by applying prevention and protection capabilities. These<br />

capabilities are both wide-ranging and diverse and match the complexity of human health needs.<br />

These capabilities are focused on the individual, while others are directed at the family,<br />

organization, or force. Additionally, the <strong>Service</strong>s will develop and enforce specific minimum<br />

standards; these standards will ensure <strong>Service</strong> members are free of diseases or medical and<br />

dental conditions that are incompatible with expeditionary military service.<br />

b. When focusing on the joint force, the medical portion of protection is labeled force<br />

health protection (FHP). It includes all measures taken by commanders, leaders, individual<br />

<strong>Service</strong> members, and the Military <strong>Health</strong> System to promote, improve, or conserve the mental<br />

and physical well-being of <strong>Service</strong> members across the range of military operations. These<br />

measures enable a healthy and fit force, prevent injury and illness, and protect the force from<br />

health hazards.<br />

c. Members of the joint force have to be physically and mentally fit. This requirement<br />

demands programs that promote and improve the capacity of the personnel to perform military<br />

tasks at high levels under extreme conditions for extended periods of time. These preventive<br />

and protective capabilities include physical exercise, nutritional diets, dental hygiene and<br />

restorative treatment, combat and operational stress management, rest, recreation, and relaxation<br />

geared to the individual or organization.<br />

d. Methods to prevent disease are best applied synergistically. Sanitation practices, waste<br />

management, pest and vector control are crucial to protection from disease. Regional spraying<br />

and the application of insect repellent to guard against hazardous flora are examples of prevention<br />

methods. Prophylactic measures can encompass human and animal immunizations, dental<br />

chemoprophylaxis and treatment, epidemiology, optometry, counseling on specific health threats,<br />

and issuance of protective clothing and equipment.<br />

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