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Body About Refugee Health Services The Refugee Health Services Program provides culturally and linguistically appropriate comprehensive health assessments to newly arrived refugees, asylees, victims of trafficking, and other eligible entrants. The components of the health assessment include: screening and treating for communicable diseases; identifying chronic diseases and other important medical conditions...

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Body BHS Medi-Cal Provider Information Drug Medi-Cal (DMC-ODS) Hot Topics Involuntary Detention Behavioral Health Advisory Board Patients' Rights Advocacy Prevention & Intervention - MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT (MHSA) ADMINISTRATION Suicide Prevention Warning Signs of Mental Illness

Body This report provides a summary of the leading causes of substance-related overdoses in Orange County. While drug and alcohol-related mortality has generally been rising since 2012, a dramatic rise from 2019 to 2020 attributed to a pandemic-related increase in drug-related deaths. When accounting for all the substances involved in a...

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Body Information for the General Public What is legionella? Legionella is a type of bacteria naturally found in freshwater environments as well as human-made water systems including but not limited to hot tubs, decorative fountains, and/or cooling towers. Legionella can cause legionnaire's disease, a serious type of pneumonia infection, or Pontiac...

Body Flip Version Opioid-related overdose deaths have seen a dramatic increase across the nation, state, and county since the 1990s that has only accelerated in the past ten years. In this report we summarize opioid-related morbidity and mortality in Orange County (OC) in the context of these national trends. We examine...

Body Salmonella is a bacteria (germ) that causes illness with diarrhea, fever and/or stomach cramps. There are many kinds of Salmonella bacteria, causing approximately 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths each year in the United States. The source for the majority (~1 million) of these infections are thought to...

Body Shigella are bacteria (germs) that causes illness with diarrhea, fever and/or stomach cramps. There are four kinds (species) of Salmonella bacteria, causing approximately 500,000 illnesses each year in the United States. Shigella are very contagious and can easily be spread among households with young children, childcare settings, and during sexual...