Local Health Department Resource Page

More LHD resources

-Disease and outbreak investigation

-Infection control

-Long-term care facilities

-HIPAA

-Courses in Communicable Disease Investigation and Control

Model Standing Orders  -for Vaccines  -for Prophylaxis of Mening Case Contacts  -for other stuff

Welcome to the LHD resource page. We hope to provide quick access to useful information for local health departments. If you have a suggestion for this page, please email us at ohd.acdp@state.or.us.

On this page:

• Quick web links
  • Oregon
  • Elsewhere

• DHS Health Services press releases
  
  
• Acute and communicable disease press releases
  
  
• Administrative rules for disease reporting
  
  
• Antimicrobial resistance and Oregon's campaign for judicious use of antibiotics
  
  
• Courses in Communicable Disease Investigation and Control
  
  
• Reporting Sick and Dead Birds (pdf)
  
  
• Oregon bioterrorism/public health preparedness links
  
  
  • Bioterrorism preparedness surveillance and epidemiology
    
    
  • Training and education links
    
    
  • Risk communication and public health information
    
    
  • Public health preparedness planning home page
  
  
  
• County Health Dept. Directory
  
  
• Department of Education School Health Services Manual
  
  
• Disease reporting home page
  
  
• Foodborne outbreak investigation resources
  
  
• Gastroenteritis outbreak investigation resources
  
  
  • Nursing homes and similar settings
    
    
  • Outbreak classifications by etiology (pdf)
    
    
• Outbreak data: Total outbreaks (GI and non-GI) by 2002-2007 PDF  
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• Guidelines for post-exposure exclusion of varicella susceptibles in Oregon schools and daycare centers
  
  
• HIPAA
  
  
• Hepatitis C Statewide Planning Group
  
  
• Isolation and Quarantine voluntary home confinement agreement
  
  
  • Isolation and Quarantine procedures You will need a Collaborator or Administrator license to access these on the secure HAN site.
    
    
• NEDSS: National Electronic Data Surveillance System
  
  
• OHS gateway to other health agencies and organizations: search and link to state and federal government, foundation, and non-profit health-related sites
  
  
• OHS and US government website list: hyperlinked PDF document
  
  
• Oregon hospital website list: hyperlinked PDF document
  
  
• OR-Epi conference presentations
  
  
  
• Other references for local health departments
  
  

• CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention home page
  
  
• CDC en español
  
  
• Disease fact sheets in Spanish (thanks to the Virginia Health Dept.)