Communicable Diseases Affecting Your Community
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Community, Infectious diseases spread through people, animals, foods, surfaces, or the air. When infectious diseases occur, we identify them, isolate them, and collaborate with local healthcare providers to prevent their spread. They are the leading cause of illness and death throughout the world.
Preventing and controlling infectious diseases are essential public health functions that protect our community by lowering the risk of illness and death among people of all ages. To accomplish this, the Public Health Communicable Disease Program collaborates closely with our healthcare provider partners to:
Give information on how diseases spread to keep yourself and others healthy.
Encourage immunizations.
If an infectious disease emergency occurs, collaborate and plan with local healthcare providers, the Washington State Department of Health, and the Department of Emergency Management.
Investigate outbreaks, contact people who may have been exposed, recommend appropriate treatment, and disseminate information to the community so that you and your family can be protected.
Monitor local reports of over 60 reportable diseases and conditions to assist state and federal agencies in monitoring trends, allocating resources, and learning more about how to fight or eliminate these illnesses. Community, Infectious diseases spread through people, animals, foods, surfaces, or the air. When infectious diseases occur, we identify them, isolate them, and collaborate with local healthcare providers to prevent their spread. They are the leading cause of illness and death throughout the world.
Preventing and controlling infectious diseases are essential public health functions that protect our community by lowering the risk of illness and death among people of all ages. To accomplish this, the Public Health Communicable Disease Program collaborates closely with our healthcare provider partners to:
Give information on how diseases spread to keep yourself and others healthy.
Encourage immunizations.
If an infectious disease emergency occurs, collaborate and plan with local healthcare providers, the Washington State Department of Health, and the Department of Emergency Management.
Investigate outbreaks, contact people who may have been exposed, recommend appropriate treatment, and disseminate information to the community so that you and your family can be protected.
Monitor local reports of over 60 reportable diseases and conditions to assist state and federal agencies in monitoring trends, allocating resources, and learning more about how to fight or eliminate these illnesses.
QUESTION
Communicable Diseases Affecting Your Community
What was the last communicable diseases affecting your community and what were the primary, secondary and tertiary preventions that the community health nurses have undertaken to prevent the spread of the disease?