Health Priority #10: Controlling Contagious Disease
Working harder to control contagious disease (such as pertussis, salmonella, gonorrhea) through more prevention and treatment. | ||||
Action Plan
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Goal: Increase the availability and effectiveness of programs designed to prevent and treat communicable disease. | ||||
Objective 1: By 2017, increase the number of individuals receiving Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT) through WCCHD baseline by 5%. | Objective 2: By 2017, increase the percentage of children in Williamson County under 6 years of age with two or more immunizations recorded in ImmTrac from baseline by 5%. |
Objective 3: By 2017, fully integrate WCCHD Environmental Health Services and Epidemiology information systems for routine review and dissemination of data to detect and define risks to public health related to food safety and infections from mosquito-borne viruses.
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Objective 4: By 2017, increase the number of Williamson County providers enrolled in the HIE reporting notifiable conditions directly to WCCHD from baseline by 5%.
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Objective 5: By 2017, use Healthy Williamson County to display community-specific education material on pertussis, chickenpox, campylobacteriosis, and salmonellosis. |