Military Health-Health Performance Optimization

Question 1

What is HPO?

Answer 1

The process of applying knowledge, skills and emerging technologies to improve and preserve the capabilities of DoD personnel to complete the mission

Question 2

What are the components of HPO?

Answer 2

Socioemotional, physical, and cognitive

Question 3

What is resilience?

Answer 3

Ability to withstand, recover and grow in the face of stressors and changing demands. “We bend but we don’t break”

Question 4

What is the OODA LOOP? How is this applied on the battle field?

Answer 4

Observe, orient, decide and act. On the battle field, optimizing the speed of reaction is preferred to optimization of power.

Question 5

How do you optimize the OODA loop?

Answer 5

Enhance ability and mitigate stressors

Question 6

Essentially what is HPO optimizing?

Answer 6

The OODA Loop.

Question 7

What are the different phases of HPO?

Answer 7

Pre-deployment (enhancement), deployment (sustainment), and post-deployment (restoration)

Question 8

What tools are available for use in HPO?

Answer 8

Drugs, techniques, machines and genes.

Question 9

What is your role in a unit as a healthcare provider? What 5 steps do you go through to accomplish this?

Answer 9

To optimize and sustain the health the troops in your unit. 1. Analyze the performance tasks and the OODA loop 2. analyze intrinsic capabilities 3. analyze extrinsic factors 4. identify potential HPO strategies 5. implement strategies