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Disease Control
Tuberculosis (TB) Control, Communicable Disease (CD) Control and
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Control works to control communicable
disease outbreaks and to monitor the health status of our communities.
Preventing epidemics and controlling communicable disease is one
of the core functions of public health. The TB Control program screens
for both TB infection and TB disease and provides prophylaxis for
infection and 4 drug therapy for active disease. CD Control staff
responds to outbreaks and to single cases of communicable disease
in order to prevent spread in the community. This program also reports
all communicable diseases to the State and follows trend in morbidity.
STD control works to educate providers and the public about STD's
in our population. Follow-up on contact notification, screening,
and treatment is also part of the program's activities.
Immunization Project
The Immunization Project's goal is to assure appropriate, on-time
immunization for infants, children, adolescents and adults in the
county. Outreach and education programs are complemented by population
based assessments to measure vaccine coverage. The Project acts
as a resource to provide accurate and timely immunization information
to private and public health care providers, to schools and child
care centers, and to the general public.
Public Health Lab
The Public Health Laboratory provides laboratory testing services
to the support Communicable Disease Control program activities of
the Public Health Department: Mycobacteriology (TB), mycology (Fungi),
sexually transmitted diseases (HIV, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Chlamydia),
parasitology (worms, protozoans, ectoparasites), enteric bacteriology
(salmonella, shigella, etc.), special bacteriology (whooping cough,
cholera, and other unusual pathogens of Public Health significance),
rabies testing. Services provided to the Environmental Health Program
of the Public Health Department include: water bacteriology - drinking
water (testing for total coliforms and E. coli, heterotrophic plate
count) and recreational water (MPN for total coliforms, E. coli,
and enterococcus), food microbiology (bacteriological analysis of
food samples for food-borne illness outbreak investigations). Laboratory
services provided to the local medical community include: consultation
and referral services, access to the services of the California
State Dept. of Health Services Laboratories and the CDC, and processing
of TB specimens.
Vital Records
The Vital Records Office processes birth and death certificates.
This process also includes providing certified copies of birth and
death certificates for the current and one year previous.
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