EPIDEMIOLOGY SUMMARY 2005 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

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EPIDEMIOLOGY SUMMARY 2005COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
SURVEILLANCE

• DANA BECKHAM, DVM
• Chief Epidemiologist
• Galveston County Health District

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MISSION

• Our mission is to collect, analyze and
  distribute health related information in efforts
  to control and prevent health problems in
  Galveston County.

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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

• Texas laws (Health Safety Code, Chapters 81,
  84, and 87) require specific information
  regarding notifiable conditions be provided to
  Public Health Authorities. Health care
  providers, hospitals, laboratories, schools, and
  others are required to report individuals (cases)
  who are suspected of having a notifiable
  condition (Chapter 97, Title 25, Texas
  Administrative Code).

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COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN GALVESTON
COUNTY

• This report tabulates notifiable
  diseases/conditions reported to DSHS by GCHD from
  January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
• GCHD received 28 of the 70 notifiable
  diseases/conditions that are reportable in the
  state of Texas.
• The Health District reported 2,124 cases to DSHS.

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COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN GALVESTON
COUNTY

• Galveston County has approximately 273,582
  people.
• Racially and ethnically distributed as follows
• 61 white 20 Hispanic 14 black 2 Asian 3
  Other
• The data presented in this report will display
  the condition/disease, sex, race/ethnicity, age,
  and geographical location of cases reported to
  the State.

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DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE/CONDITION BY SEX
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DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE/CONDITION BY
RACE/ETHNICITY
61
20
14
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DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE/CONDITION BY AGE
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DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE/CONDITION BY CITY
15
12
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MORBIDITY OF GALVESTON COUNTY - STD

• SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STDs)
• 1,345 Galveston County STDs were reported to
  Health District
• Females more often reported than males as having
  STDs (73 female and 27 male)
• 54 black, 27 white, 18 Hispanic
• Most STD cases were Chlamydia (60) and gonorrhea
  (33)
• Incidence rates for these infections are higher
  in Galveston County than in Texas and the U.S.

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MORBIDITY OF GALVESTON COUNTY - HEPATITIS

• 441 new records entered in GCHD hepatitis
  registry 435 were hepatitis C cases
• Males more often diagnosed with hepatitis C than
  females (60 males and 40 females)
• Racial/Ethnic breakdown 49 white, 6 Hispanic,
  15 black, 1 Asian, 29 unknown

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MORBIDITY OF GALVESTON COUNTY VACCINE
PREVENTABLE DISEASES

• No confirmed cases of measles, mumps, rubella, or
  Haemophilus influenzae type B
• 6 acute hepatitis B cases
• 11 pertussis cases
• 55 males and white
• 45 females and Hispanic

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2005 SUMMARY

• 2,181 cases to investigate
• 2,124 were reported to DSHS
• Communicable disease cases occurred in all parts
  of Galveston County.
• Top 3 notifiable diseases/conditions in Galveston
  County were Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Hepatitis C.