The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center announced the release of its fiscal year 2015 annual report on the NMCPHC Wounded, Ill and Injured (WII) Program, April 19.

The NMCPHC WII Program produces targeted resources and provides actionable data to operational and medical leadership to inform decisions on policies, practices and medical services and support mission readiness throughout the Navy and Marine Corps.

Over the past six years, NMCPHC has developed unparalleled data analysis and surveillance capabilities that have become an integral part of the Navy's public health mission. What transformed from an ad hoc capability to an established program has now become part of NMCPHC's enduring mission and core capabilities. This evolution fortifies NMCPHC's ability to analyze and monitor health care outcomes and disease prevalence across the Military Health System. It also allows NMCPHC to continue implementing insect control programs that prevent injuries and illnesses throughout the Department of Defense.

"We are proud of our ongoing mission to provide services and products that inform decisions on healthcare policies and protect service members throughout the deployment cycle," said Bill Calvert, deputy director of Population Health at NMCPHC. "The integration of these products and services is unique to NMCPHC, making it the go-to resource for epidemiology surveillance, analytics and program evaluations."

Since its inception in 2010, the NMCPHC WII Program has monitored health outcomes throughout the deployment cycle, analyzed disease data, promoted healthy living and consulted on health risk issues. As a result, these capabilities present Navy Medicine leadership with evidence-based products to inform decisions on emerging public health issues, enhance healthcare for WII service members and optimize health promotion and prevention efforts for Sailors and Marines.

Some of the most notable successes from the NMCPHC WII Program in 2015 include:
* Captured over 90,000 deployment health assessments to provide ongoing, multifaceted surveillance reporting for service members throughout the deployment cycle.
* Developed and utilized metrics that contribute to health care process improvements for wounded service members and evaluate the effectiveness of WII projects throughout Navy Medicine.
* Provided subject-matter expertise and delivered detailed clinical analyses for Navy suicide case reviews to enhance prevention strategies in the Navy and Marine Corps.
* Developed a standard definition for chronic pain to identify chronic pain patients in need of medical resources and assess the complexity of non-cancer chronic pain in Navy Medicine enrollees.
* Received an official invitation for Navy Entomology Center of Excellence to become a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for testing and evaluating pesticide dispersal technology.
* Tested over 265 insecticide compounds to evaluate their effectiveness in protecting service members from blood-feeding insects that carry human disease.

To read more about the NMCPHC WII Program, visit: www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/wounded-ill-and-injured

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