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Application of the Public Health Model for Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Within the Military

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Musculoskeletal injuries and conditions are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality within the US military population, and they negatively impact force readiness. Since the early 1990s, military leaders have become increasingly aware of the burden that musculoskeletal injuries and conditions place on military populations. The public health model has recently been applied as an overarching framework to address this critical threat to military readiness. Combined with a systematic approach to evidence-based decision making, the public health model has been used to make significant progress toward achieving important injury prevention objectives within the Department of Defense. Despite the advances that have been made, dedicated injury prevention research objectives and resource support remain critical barriers to effective injury prevention in the military. Unfortunately, the efficacy and effectiveness of many injury prevention interventions are dependent on health-related behavior at multiple levels of the organization in order to initiate and sustain clinically important behavior change. The purpose of this chapter is to review how the public health approach has been applied to address the injury problem in the military and to provide an overview of how theories of health behavior change might be utilized to improve injury prevention intervention planning, implementation, and outcomes in this high-risk population.

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Abbreviations

AFEB:

Armed Forces Epidemiological Board

DoD:

Department of Defense

DMSS:

Defense Medical Surveillance System

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Cameron, K. (2016). Application of the Public Health Model for Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Within the Military. In: Cameron, K., Owens, B. (eds) Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Military. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2984-9_14

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