Fundamental Inputs to (ADF Health) Capability: Personnel
Introduction There has been a longstanding misperception within Defence, government and the general public that the ADF health services only need to provide treatment services. This notion fails to recognise the other two intrinsically linked ‘purposes’ (what would now be called ‘missions’) identified by Arthur Graham Butler in his seminal WWI medical history:1,2 enabling operational […]
Fundamental Inputs to (ADF Health) Capability: Organisation
Introduction A previous series of papers have analysed the following functions and roles of military health services necessary to conduct their three elemental and distinct yet intrinsically interlinked missions: providing treatment services, enabling operational capability and facilitating civilian re-integration:1 ‘Military health support’, pending a better term indicating that, whether deployed or not, all ADF commanders […]