NATO AMEDP-4.1 PDF

This document primarily focuses on health surveillance applied to NATO deployments, i.e. monitoring of health status, detecting public health trends or exceptional events (as natural or intentional outbreaks or unexpected diseases cases), providing health status information, feedback and alerts to NATO. This document has to be understood as NATO doctrine regarding deployment health surveillance.

PURPOSE

The aim of this document is to articulate NATO deployment health surveillance doctrine and policy, taking account of developments in the field of military preventive medicine and epidemiology, since publication of AMedP-21 Edition 1, under cover of STANAG 2535 in October 2010. It also takes account of the ongoing developments in NATO systems including the MEDICS component of LogFS.

This document is a revision of AMedP-4.1, Edition A, Version 1, which it replaces. The numbering viz. AMedP-4.1, reflects the fact that This document provides NATO deployment health surveillance (supporting) doctrine in relation to AJMedP-4 Force Health Protection (which in turn supports the NATO medical keystone doctrine: AJP-4.10 Allied Joint Doctrine For Medical Support.