Medical Intelligence

Medical intelligence

Medical intelligence is a set of activities aimed at collecting information about factors affecting the health and medical care of military personnel and the civilian population.

Medical intelligence in the armed forces includes the collection of data on the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the area where troops operate, the presence of infectious diseases, and radiation and chemical contamination of the area. This information is necessary for organizing anti-epidemic and treatment-and-prophylactic measures, and providing military units with medical equipment.

In the civil defense system, medical reconnaissance is carried out to assess the sanitary and epidemiological situation in areas where the population is located and in affected areas. Its goal is to obtain data on the needs of the affected population for medical care, the need to carry out sanitary, anti-epidemic and medical evacuation measures.

Thus, medical intelligence is an important component of medical support for the army and the population in emergency situations. Timely collection and analysis of intelligence data allows one to make informed decisions on the organization of treatment and preventive measures.

**Medical intelligence** is actions to determine the general condition and needs of medical services, the degree of their readiness to perform tasks of providing medical care by collecting information, analyzing it and making decisions based on it, necessary to preserve the life and health of military personnel, protection population and objects from epidemic and parasitic diseases, ensuring the effectiveness of civil and state defense measures and overcoming the consequences of disasters.

**The purpose of the medical intelligence activities of the RF Armed Forces (VMSU)** 1. Obtaining reliable information, helping