Acute and Communicable Disease

Working to Keep Oregonians Healthy

Disease prevention and control is a cooperative effort involving health care providers, local and state health department personnel and members of the community. Oregon Public Health Division programs work to prevent the emergence and spread of communicable diseases. This includes collecting and analyzing disease reports, studying risk factors, protecting exposed individuals and families, developing guidelines for disease prevention and control, and planning and responding to public health emergencies involving communicable diseases. Protecting the population from communicable diseases is one of seven priority areas from Oregon's State Health Improvement Plan.

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Health Equity

 

Learn what the Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention section is doing to promote health equity.

ACDP and Health Equity

Resources

• For the Public
• For Schools and Child Care
• For Local Public Health Authorities
• For Providers and Laboratories

• Diseases A-Z
  
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Related Topics

• Alternative Treatments of Infectious Waste in Oregon
• Communicable Disease Testing (State Public Health Laboratory)
• Flu Prevention (flu.oregon.gov)
• HIV, STDs and Viral Hepatitis
• Vaccines and Immunization