Military Health System (MHS) - Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS)

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Vision & Eye Health

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Vision & Eye Health. Military Health System (MHS) - Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E242872V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Military Health System (MHS) - Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS)
Summary:  View help for Summary The Department of Defense Health Agencys (DHA) Vision Center of Excellence (VCE) analyzed data from the MHS MART database on behalf of the VEHSS project. MHS MART is a data management and reporting system used to support decision-making, health care analysis, and operational reporting. MART integrates various sources within MHS to provide a centralized repository for health care data, facilitating access to information that aids in managing health care services, resources, and performance across MHS. Data are based on claims and encounter records in the MHS Management Analysis and Reporting Tool (MART) database. The population includes all active-duty and retired military members and their dependents in the MHS. The sample size is approximately 9.08 million persons. These data are also available in the VEHSS Data Explorer, an interactive data visualization tool reporting prevalence information from more than 10 data sources: https://www.cdc.gov/vision-health-data/index.html Read less
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://data.cdc.gov/Vision-Eye-Health/Military-Health-System-MHS-Vision-and-Eye-Health-S/binw-6h77/about_data

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms vision
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