Public health @ Department of Health

Public Health Directorate Branches:

• Applied Environmental Health

  • Environmental Services ~ public health, environmental waste

  • Wastewater Management ~ onsite and offsite wastewater collection/treatment/reuse for towns, other large developments and households (including septic tanks)

  • Regional Services ~ Aboriginal environmental health, remote communities

  • Tobacco Surveillance ~ tobacco legislation, regulating tobacco advertising, smoking in licensed premises and workplaces and the sale of tobacco products to minors.

• Food Policy & Programs ~ food safety, food surveillance, food technology, food microbiology, genetically modified organisms

• Scientific Services

  • Water Quality

  • Special Programs

  • Controlled Substances Licensing

  • Public Health Toxicology ~ toxicology, exposure to hazardous chemicals, contaminated sites

• Communicable Disease Control

  • Specialist Support Unit

  • Surveillance and Investigation Unit

  • Immunisation Section

  • Infection Control Service

  • Hepatitis C, HIV and Related Programs Unit

• Health Promotion

• SA Cervix Screening Program ~ data management, projects, information resources

Other business units within the Department of Health dealing with public and environmental health issues

Port Pirie Environmental Health Centre

Population Research and Outcome Studies (formerly Centre for Population Studies in Epidemiology)

Epidemiology Branch

• Injury Surveillance and Control Unit

• Cancer Registry

• Pregnancy Outcome Statistics Unit

• Health Statistics Unit

• Health Outcomes Unit

Pharmaceutical Services

BreastScreen SA ~ BreastScreen SA website, State Coordination Unit, Assessment Clinic, Screening Clinics, Mobile Screening Units

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Services

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