Reflection: Post-Deployment Health Assessments

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Reflection Personally, I normally presume evaluations are to be done after an event has occurred. Looking back in life I can see the many times the evaluations have been done beforehand to help quantify the "what" and "how" to best achieve the desired outcomes. When getting ready to deploy with the U.S. Marines, our healthcare unit conducted pre-deployment health assessments. Midway through the deployment we did another assessment, and shorty after returning back home stateside we did a post deployment assessment. I can understand how this benefited us as healthcare professionals and as a participate, because it helps develop baselines of what is important and normal amongst the groups and individually. Creating a program takes a vast

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