Improving Nevada’s Public Health

The Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit  is responsible for developing statewide disease investigation protocols and accompanying materials, surveillance of communicable disease trends within Nevada, and providing recommendations to reduce communicable disease transmission and associated negative outcomes.

Environmental health (EH) deals with all the different ways the world around us can impact our physical and mental well-being. The Environmental Health Unit is focused on the intersect between zoonotic and environmental factors that affect human health.

This program aims to supply State-licensed facilities and pre-K-12 schools with infection prevention practices that best reflect the most recent, up-to-date standards for infection prevention and control.

Health equity ensures that all individuals have access to health education, resources, support, and opportunities to ensure a healthier quality of life despite race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, religion, gender identity or sex.

Chronic diseases are human health conditions that persists for at least one year and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.  Major chronic diseases include heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease.