Epidemiology Basics
The systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data to guide response actions.
What is surveillance?
Reportable diseases are broken into these three classifications.
What is Class A, B, and C?
The standardized framework used to manage incidents across agencies and jursdictions.
What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
When a Lucas County hospital encounters a patient that has a suspected or confirmed Class A disease, they must immediately report it to this agency.
Who is the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department?
This state partner will provide recommendations regarding the management of wastewater, especially during decontamination efforts.
Who is the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA)?
A group of cases linked by place, time, and exposure, such as an illness among children attending a summer day camp.
What is a cluster?
Diseases of significant public health concern, such as Zika or Hepatitis A, receive this classification and need to be reported to the Bureau of Infectious Disease (BID) within 24 hours after being notified.
What is Class B?
Activated volunteers of the MRC will receive notification of where to deploy through this system.
What is Ohio Responds?
The sharing of resources and services between agencies is considered this.
What is mutual aid?
This state support agency assists local health jurisdictions with providing surveillance information for disease in production animals (e.g. livestock).
Who is the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA)?
This pathogen is only confirmed once deceased.
What is rabies?
TLCHD should enter Class A reportable diseases into this system within 24 hours.
What is the Ohio Disease Reporting System (ODRS)?
This system is a web-based resource management and communication tool used by healthcare, public health, first responders, and other healthcare and government agencies.
What is EMResource?
During a biological response, this local agency would be responsible for requesting assets, such as vaccines, for members of their local community.
Who is the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department?
This state partner will assist local health departments with the disposal of infected wild animals.
Who is the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR)?
This reference is available on the ODH website and contains important information about infectious diseases from a public health perspective.
What is the Infectious Disease Control Manual (IDCM)?
This bureau within ODH is responsible for maintaining communication with local, regional, state, federal, and other identified partners during a large-scale infectious disease response.
Who is the Bureau of infectious Disease (BID)?
This written document outlines objectives, assignments, and strategies for each operational period.
What is the Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
This agency is responsible for activating the Lucas County Emergency Operations Center during a biological event.
Who is the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency (LCEMA)?
This state support agency assists local behavioral health authorities to provide behavioral health services to first responders and the local community.
Who is the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services?
This treatment is required to treat infants exposed to botulism.
What is BabyBIG?
This is the ODH 25/7 & Class A Reportable Disease phone number.
What is (614) 722-7221?
This is an information management software utilized by Ohio EMA to track and analyze disaster information, to assist with decision making, and maintain a common operating picture before, during, and after.
What is WebEOC?
Local health departments in Ohio often collaborate with this local planning organization to enhance preparedness and response capabilities for large-scale public health events.
Who are the Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC)?
This state partner will assist in identifying and arranging transportation of infected individuals after the Emergency Response Systems is activated.
Who is the Ohio Fire Chiefs Association?