Division of Disease Control and Health Protection

BUREAU OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

BUREAU PROGRAMS

• Aquatic Toxins
• Birth Defects Registry
• Chemical Disease Surveillance
• Chronic Disease
• Disease Reporting
• Environmental Public Health Tracking
• Food and Waterborne Disease
• Health-Care Associated Infections (HAI)
• Hazardous Waste Site Health Risk Assessment
• Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention
• Indoor Air
• Influenza Surveillance
• Occupational Health
• Pesticide Poisoning Surveillance
• Rabies
• Radon
• Surveillance and Investigations
• Toxicology
• Vector-borne Disease
• Zoonotic Disease

PUBLICATIONS

• Epi Update
• Florida Annual Morbidity Statistics Report

TRAINING & QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

• Florida Epidemic Intelligence Service (FL-EIS)
• Quality Improvement
• Training Section

QUICK LINKS

• Communicable Disease Frequency Reports
• Florida CHARTS
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Healthy Homes Educational Materials

Help Yourself to a Healthy Home (<1.8 MB, pdf)

Healthy Homes Helpful Links

Tips for a Healthy Home

Lead Educational Materials

Keeping Your Children Safe from Lead Poisoning Brochure

English

Creole

Spanish

County Screening Maps
List of Florida Counties with links to maps for counties that contain areas that meet the lead screening criteria.

Childhood Lead Poisoning Screening and Case Management Guide
Document informs physicians, nurses, and other health care providers of Florida's lead poisoning screening and case management guidelines.

Prioritized Lead Poisoning Disease Investigation
Document provides information to county health departments (CHDs) on Florida's lead poisoning disease investigation guidelines.

Childhood Lead Poisoning Case Management Field Guide
The purpose of this document is to assist designated county health department (CHD) lead poisoning disease investigators and their team members, including environmental health investigators (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified lead risk assessors), in the provision of timely and effective interventions for lead poisoning in children less than 72 months of age.

Lead Free at Work and Home
How to protect yourself and your family from lead poisoning.

Lead Poisoning Prevention, Screening and Education Act, Section 381.985, F.S. 2007-2008 Activity Report
Document provides an overview of the activities and accomplishments of the Department of Health in implementing the provisions of the Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening & Education Act (Act), section 381.985, Florida Statutes, during fiscal year 2007-2008.

The following links lead to sites outside the Department of Health and all links open in a new window and are pdfs <1mb unless noted otherwise.

Sources of Lead Where is Lead HUD Keep it Clean Keep it Clean Spanish Lead in Soil Maine Lead Sources Minnesota Lead Sources Oregon Lead Sources Ramsey County Lead Sources Pesticides Take Home Lead Lead in Food

Lead in Home Remedies UTL Lead Homes Remedies Home Remedies Home Remedies 2 Lead in Home Remedies Lead in Pots

Comprehensive  Brochures Michigan 2002 Program Brochure FL Lead Brochure English FL Lead Brochure Creole FL Lead Brochure Spanish Illinois "Get Lead Out" Bright Futures: An Action Guide for Families of Children with Lead Poisoning (zip) (9.11mb)

EPA Publications Runs Better Unleaded EPA Lead in Home EPA Lead Poisoning & Your Child EPA Nutrition

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Presentations

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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Presentation

Presenter: Ricky Harrison (the presentation and transcript both open in a new window)

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Length 14min

Summary:
This presentation will help you become familiar with the problem of childhood lead poisoning in Florida. It has three specific objectives. The first objective is to introduce the causes and irreversible effects of childhood lead poisoning. The second objective is to provide you with an overview of at-risk populations in Florida and the lead poisoning statistics for the state. The third objective is to provide you with an overview of the Florida Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (the FL CLPPP) and encourage you to join us in our efforts to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Florida.