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Public Health: Infectious Diseases

MidCentral Health’s Public Health Service provides a service to prevent, investigate, control and manage notified infectious diseases in our region.

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These activities include:

Investigating diseases in accordance with national and local protocols
Preparing for emergent or pandemic disease outbreaks
Providing training and support to refugee settlement programmes
Providing and disseminating information on disease trends and issues
General infectious disease surveillance activities
Promotion of personal hygiene, hand washing, cough etiquette
Research into disease surveillance best practice

Further information about Infectious Diseases can be obtained from:

The Ministry of Health’s website:
Communicable Diseases

IMAC (Immunisation Advisory Centre)
0800 IMMUNE (0800 466863)

Disclaimer:

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