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Health.mil - Recruitment underway for competitive game to end tobacco use

Health.mil - Recruitment underway for competitive game to end tobacco use

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Recruitment underway for competitive game to end tobacco use

‘Play to win’ tXtobacco trivia contest has serious goals

tXtobacco is a month-long texting trivia contest that starts on June 6, 2016 with new rounds starting every Monday. tXtobacco will be available through December 2016 and users can sign up at any time in this time period.



WASHINGTON, June 30, 2016 – The Department of Defense, Quit Tobacco-UCanQuit2.org and the National Cancer Institute are looking for winners who can outsmart Big Tobacco. Beginning this summer, a tobacco trivia contest called tXtobacco is holding an open enrollment. The game tests knowledge of the dangers of tobacco use and directs participants to resources for quitting. While designed for active duty service members following basic training (both smokers and nonsmokers), tXtobacco’s sponsors are encouraging everyone to take part. Competition between services is intended to boost participation even further. 
The contest aims to reduce the number of military personnel who begin or reinitiate tobacco use. Using tobacco negatively affects the ability of military personnel to fight our nation’s enemies. Smoking is recognized as one of the best predictors of military training failure; it is also associated with significantly increased rates of hospitalization and lost workdays. Smokers are more likely to sustain injuries and perform poorly on military fitness evaluations. Tobacco use impairs wound healing, eyesight and night vision, and accelerates hearing loss. 
Once enrolled in tXtobacco, participants will receive 3-4 weekly trivia questions during the evening via text message for one month. Top scorers can claim bragging rights by checking the weekly online leaderboards at the UCanQuit2 website. 
Through this innovative trivia contest, those interested are urged to become “tXtobacco warriors” by texting TRIVIA to 47848 along with a chosen username and the program code provided by their installation or service training lead. The contest is offered on a rolling basis for six months, until Dec. 12, 2016. The last day to enroll is Nov. 13, 2016. For more information on hosting a tXtobacco competition at a specific base, send an email to tXtobacco. 
Visit the tXtobacco website to learn more and download promotional materials.


Advances in health information technology and Internet of Things changing health care delivery

Article
7/6/2016
Army Lt. Col. Mark Mellott, branch chief of the Defense Health Agency’s Health Information Technology Innovation and Advanced Technology Development Division, sees the Internet of Things as ‘the perfect storm’ when it comes to changing knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding how healthcare is administered to beneficiaries.
Last summer, Army Lt. Col. Mark Mellott discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to change the dynamic of health care. In many ways that potential has now become a reality.
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Technology | Health IT Research and Innovation Strategy | Innovation

USU Students Learn Public Health, Zombie Style

Article
7/5/2016
An animated zombie pandemic scenario helps students in the family nurse practitioner doctorate of nursing practice program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to understand key principles in responding to and understanding population health – the overall health of a group, be it a group of employees, a community, or entire nation. USHS graphic
An animated zombie pandemic scenario helps students in the family nurse practitioner doctorate of nursing practice program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to understand key principles in responding to and understanding population health.
Related Topics: Public Health | Health Readiness

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report: Volume 23, Number 6

Report
7/1/2016
Medical Surveillance Monthly Report
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch | Public Health

Sailors hold health services augmentation program training

Article
6/30/2016
Navy field medical service technicians, along with Navy Health Service Augmentation Program personnel prepare a mock casualty for evacuation.
Sailors with 2nd Medical Battalion held a mass casualty exercise as part of their health services augmentation program
Related Topics: Health Readiness

Live mass casualty evacuation training brings medics together

Article
6/23/2016
Polish army medics carry a litter to a UH-60 Blackhawk as part of a simulated medical evacuation drill during Exercise Anakonda at Drawsko Pomorski Training Area, Poland. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Miguel Alvarez)
U.S. and Polish medics learn valuable skills from each other while participating in exercise
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Building Partner Capacity and Interoperability | Partners

Naval Health Research Center launches norovirus vaccine trial

Article
6/22/2016
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Sterling Wold, a hospital corpsman in Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton's Family Medicine Immunizations Clinic, gives a shot to a patient. Extensive safety testing for this potential norovirus vaccine has been performed in civilian populations, but because the recruit training population regularly experiences large outbreaks of norovirus, it is a perfect place to test the effectiveness of the vaccine for the military. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Markian R. Carreon)
Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent norovirus, a highly contagious disease which causes vomiting and diarrhea
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Immunization Healthcare | Medical Research and Development

DHA director outlines agency’s role in ‘global health engagement’

Article
6/21/2016
DHA Director Vice Adm. Raquel Bono speaks to attendees of the Global Health Strategies for Security Course at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in downtown Washington, DC. (Courtesy photo)
DHA Director Bono gives keynote address for global health strategies course
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Global Health Engagement

Air Force medics enhance skills, build relationships in Dominican Republic

Article
6/20/2016
Air Force Capt. Lauren Quirao, 506th Expeditionary Medical Operations operating room nurse, cleans Espinal Ledi’s arm in preparation for a bi-lateral carpal tunnel release surgery, at Rio San Juan hospital, Dominican Republic. Quirao is part of the tenth and final Medical Readiness Training Exercise or MEDRETE rotation during Exercise NEW HORIZONS 2016. Quirao is deployed from the 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Chenzira Mallory)
New Horizons 2016 brings together U.S. military medical professionals and civil engineers who conduct readiness training exercises by delivering health care services to local communities in the Dominican Republic
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Global Health Engagement

Army combat medics test skills in Poland

Article
6/14/2016
A Soldier from the 212th Combat Support Hospital runs a litter to the MedEvac landing zone in Miloslawiec, Poland, as part of Exercise Anakonda 2016, a Polish-led, multinational exercise involving more than 31,000 participants from more than 20 nations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class John Fries)
A team of U.S. Army combat medics is in Poland for Exercise Anakonda 2016, a Polish-led, multinational exercise
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Building Partner Capacity and Interoperability | Partners

Keeping the mission going, one prescription at a time

Article
6/13/2016
Air Force Senior Airman Latoya Kirven, 455th Expeditionary Medical Group pharmacy technician, makes an intravenous medication for patients within the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
Dedicated pharmaceutical professionals are a centerpiece to the healthcare environment
Related Topics: Military Hospitals and Clinics | TRICARE Pharmacy Program | Health Readiness

Pacific Partnership 2016 arrives in Timor Leste

Article
6/9/2016
Sailors assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy demonstrate medical training procedures on a simulated patient.
While in Timor Leste, Pacific Partnership personnel will work side-by-side with civilian leadership from the Dili community and Timor Leste Defense Forces
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Global Health Engagement

Blood in the water

Article
6/6/2016
Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Pelisa Jackson draws blood from Navy Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Kenneth Allen for his periodic health assessment aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp.
The first step to studying a patient's blood is drawing it, a process known as phlebotomy
Related Topics: Health Readiness

Teamwork, training key to USNS Mercy MEDEVAC of South Korean sailor

Article
6/3/2016
Navy Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class John Davis, signals an MH-60S assigned to the Blackjacks of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21 aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy.
Embarked Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 launched an MH-60S helicopter from USNS Mercy to recover a South Korean sailor and returned him to the hospital ship
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Building Partner Capacity and Interoperability | Partners

Agenda: Defense Health Board, June 2 2016

Meeting Reference
6/2/2016
Agenda: Defense Health Board, June 2, 2016
Related Topics: Health Readiness

Armed Services Blood Program Research and Development Initiatives

Presentation
6/2/2016
Armed Services Blood Program-Research and Development Initiatives
Related Topics: Health Readiness

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