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The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) communicable disease chart's primary purpose is to provide schools, childcare centers, and other facilities with guidance on managing common illnesses to prevent the spread of disease, outlining incubation periods, transmission methods, and necessary actions or exclusions for infected individuals to maintain a healthy environment. It serves as a practical reference, complementing the state's Infectious Disease Control Manual, by detailing appropriate management and exclusion procedures for various communicable diseases.
Purposes of the Chart:
Disease Prevention: It helps prevent the spread of common, reportable, and not-reportable infectious diseases in community settings.
Guidance for Facilities: Schools and childcare centers use it to understand when a child or staff member with a specific illness should be excluded from the facility to prevent further transmission.
Information on Illnesses: The chart provides essential information on the symptoms, incubation period, and transmission of common illnesses that may affect children and staff in these environments.
Informing Action: It helps facility staff understand what actions to take when a child or staff member shows signs of a communicable disease, including when a child might need to be sent home.
Promoting Health: By informing prevention and management, the chart promotes the overall health and well-being of the specific populations served by schools and childcare facilities.
Supporting Public Health: It is a resource used in conjunction with Ohio's Administrative Code, supporting the broader public health goal of controlling and preventing communicable diseases in the community.
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