Service Results for Preventive Health
About Community and Preventive Health
The Center for Community and Preventive Health conducts a variety of programs and services designed to improve public health measures in Louisiana. Programs and services this center offers through the LDH Office of Public Health include screenings, health needs assessments, laboratory testing services, infectious disease reporting and nutrition programs.
Annual Infectious Disease Surveillance Reports
Infectious disease surveillance data, hospital discharge data and cause of deaths from vital statistics within Louisiana.
Bureau of Laboratory Services
The goal of the OPH Laboratory is to protect the health and safety of the citizens and visitors to the State of Louisiana by providing accurate and timely laboratory data to state officials, public health programs and citizens of the state. Information produced by the OPH Laboratory is a key component in day to day decision making as well as being critical to crisis management following natural disasters, disease outbreaks, chemical spills, and threat events. Public health programs as well as state and federal law enforcement agencies use OPH Laboratory data.