DoD Launches Deployment Aid Library

The Defense Department’s Deployment Health Risk Communication Working Group and the Joint Task Force for Family Readiness Education on Deployments have joined together to create the Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library. Ellen Embrey, principal defense deputy for force health protection and readiness, said the online library offers service members, families and health-care providers a quick and easy way to find information about deployment health and family readiness. The library includes fact sheets, guides and other products on a wide variety of health topics. Information will be added to the site as new topics and areas of concern emerge, Embry added. “We are absolutely committed to providing the best information found in sound science and based on medical evidence,” she said. “We want this site to be the authoritative source for deployment health and family readiness information.“ Visit http://deploymenthealthlibrary.fhp.osd.mil/listing.jsp.