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Health Care Agency
Public Health Services
Epidemiology & Assessment
(714) 834-8180
Fax: (714) 834-8196
Email: EPI@ochca.com
Health Referral Line
(800) 564-8448
(800) 801-7100 TDD
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About Us
Epidemiology & Assessment
Certain communicable diseases are required to be reported to the local health department (see List of Reportable Diseases) as per the State of California Code of Regulations. Epidemiology and Assessment (E&A) unit's medical director, public health nurses, and epidemiologists investigate individual cases and outbreaks of reported communicable diseases. We monitor disease trends, and often provide current statistics and other information to doctors, hospitals, the public and news media. We may also provide education or preventive treatment in some circumstances. Although other units handle reports of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), we do monitor their trends in Orange County.
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