Does USARIEM track the long-term health of Soldiers?
USARIEM has developed the Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database (TAIHOD), which joins multiple personnel and health data sets from numerous DoD agencies. All records are linked by social security numbers at the level of the individual Soldier. Social security numbers are scrambled to protect the anonymity of the Soldier. TAIHOD links four general categories of data: demographics, health outcomes (i.e., hospitalizations, outpatient visits, lost-time injuries, permanent disabilities, and fatalities), self-reported health habits and risk-taking behaviors from surveys, and chemical exposures from the Defense Occupational Health Readiness System. Research epidemiologists at USARIEM use the databases to directly link Army personnel records, self-reported health habits, and chemical and noise exposures to specific health outcomes, and to trace the interrelationship of these outcomes and exposures over time. Analysis of broad categories of data from multiple sources over long periods
