Department of Defense Medical Transformation: A Case for the Defense Health Agency

Defense Transformation and the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review

A t the end of the Cold War, America entered a new and unfamiliar global security environment. As the Department of Defense began to alter strategies and plans, it quickly became apparent that changes might have to be made across the defense establishment. This led in 1993 to the Bottom-Up Review, and, starting in 1997, to the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) process. As the Department of Defen...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN BACHELOR STUDENTS URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Background & Aims: One of the important dimension of health is mental health. Men in order to confront stresses, have used defense mechanisms for life-long. Defenses play an important role in mental health. Each mental disturbance relates with a given maladaptive defense mechanism. In this study the relation between the mental health and defense mechanisms of the bachelor students of Urmia Univ...

CD oo PREPARED FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Zero Knowledge and the Department of Defense

The game is simple and apparently paradoxical: Prove you know something— an ID number, an access code—without revealing even a single bit of the information itself. The importance is obvious: from credit card numbers to computer passwords, we are increasingly reliant on the secure electronic transmission of what are known as signatures. Yet how can one transmit a signature without potentially r...

Formulary management in the Department of Defense.

BACKGROUND The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) health care benefit (TRICARE) provides 9.2 million active-duty and retired uniformed services personnel and their family members with access to a comprehensive pharmacy benefit with low out-of-pocket costs. DoD's Uniform Formulary is available worldwide at DoD's 3 pharmacy points of service (military pharmacies, contracted mail order, and communit...