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Parish Health Profiles

The Parish Health Profiles provide information to help promote and improve health outcomes in communities. They are toolsthat can be used to develop policy, write grants, develop new initiatives, improve existing programs, and assist in evaluation efforts for developing and maintaining "healthy communities." 

Sanitarian Services

Sanitarian Services is primarily occupied with enforcing laws, rules and regulations for maintaining and promoting community hygiene; however they are increasingly orienting themselves to accomplishing their goals by education, enlightenment, and persuasion. Also included in the area is licensing and regulations for food and drug, retail food, disease vector, commercial seafood, infectious waste, export certificates, onsite wastewater, tanning facilities and commercial body art.


ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Budget, Contracts, Management Control and Operations and Support

HEALTH POLICY, INFORMATION & PROMOTION
Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Service Learning, Legislative Monitoring, Policy Development and Issuance, Grants Management, Healthy People 2010/2020, Rulemaking, Performance Accountability

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Community Health

Center For Community Health - Laboratory Services, Nursing Services, Parish Health Units, Pharmacy, State Epidemiologist, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, West Nile virus and Other Arboviruses.

Community Preparedness

Center For Community Preparedness - Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Preparedness & Response, Healthy Louisiana 2010, Injury Research and Prevention Program, Pandemic Flu, Public Health Social Work and Workforce Development .

Environmental Health

Center for Environmental Health  -  Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund, Engineering Services, Environmental Epidemiology & Toxicology, Chemical Event Exposure Assessment Program, Geographical Information System (GIS) Support Service, Health/Fish Consumption Advisory Program, Heavy Metal Surveillance, Indoor Air Quality Education Service, Louisiana Environmental and Health Effects Tracking Program, Louisiana Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) Program, Sanitarian Services, Beach Monitoring Program, Building and Premises Program, Commercial Seafood Program, Disease Vector Control Program, Export Certificates, Food & Drug Program, Commercial Body Art (Tattooing/Body Piercing), Infectious Waste Program, Milk & Dairy Control Program, Molluscan Shellfish Program, Onsite Wastewater Program and Retail Food Program.

Preventive Health

Center For Preventive Health - Adolescent School Health Program - School-Based Health Centers, Children's Special Health Services (CSHS),  Hearing, Speech and Vision Program, Louisiana Birth Defects Monitoring Network, Family Planning, Genetic Diseases, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (LACLPPP), HIV/AIDS Program, Immunization Program, Maternal & Child Health, Louisiana SAFE KIDS, Inc., Partners For Healthy Babies, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Nutrition, Healthier Cajun Cooking, Louisiana Council on Obesity Prevention and Management, WIC (Women, Infants & Children), Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's), Tuberculosis Control Program and Yellow Fever Vaccination Certification Program.

Vital Records and Statistics

 

Center for Records and Statistics  operates a centralized vital-event registry, health-data analysis and dissemination program for the government and people of the State of Louisiana.  The center collects, transcribes, compiles, and analyzes reports, preserves, amends, and issues vital records including birth, death, fetal death, abortion, marriage, and divorce certificates.  The center is charged with operating the Louisiana Putative Father Registry, the Orleans Parish Marriage License Office, and with recording all adoptions, legitimations, and other judicial edicts that affect the state’s vital records. CRS also maintains the state’s health-statistics repository and publishes the Louisiana Vital Statistics Report, the Louisiana Health Report Card, the Louisiana Hospital Inpatient Discharge Database (LAHIDD) Report, and the Louisiana - Health at a Glance poster. The Center issues burial transit permits to licensed funeral directors statewide.  The center also oversees Vital Records Customer Service which involves education and training services provided to the general public and to the initiators of vital event records.


 


 

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OPH Contacts

»   Brown, Doris
Center Director
»   Cambre, Glenn
Public Health Executive Director
»   Starks, Mardrah
Program Manager - Planning
»   Bernard, B.S.B.E., April
Region 4 Disease Surveillance Specialist
»   Berry MD MPH, Susan
CSHS Director

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