OPHIE records and analyzes data from disease investigations, identifies risk factors, and provides education on disease prevention in Nevada.
The Office of Public Health Informatics and Epidemiology records and analyzes reportable disease information, conducts interviews with infected individuals and their contacts, refers individuals for medical treatment, analyzes data from disease investigations, identifies risk factors, provides education and recommendations on disease prevention, and works in conjunction with appropriate agencies to enforce communicable disease laws.
Posted comments and images do not necessarily represent the views of the Office of Public Health Informatics and Epidemiology (OPHIE). External, non-OPHIE links on this site do not constitute official endorsement on behalf of OPHIE. While we encourage fans to share thoughts and opinions on the OPHIE Facebook page, we expect that this will be done in a respectful manner.
OPHIE does not agree with or endorse every comment that individuals post on our pages. Our goal is to share ideas and information with as many individuals as possible and our policy is to accept the majority of comments made to our profile.
Therefore, a comment will be deleted if it contains:
i. Hate speech;
ii. Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity;
iii. Nudity in profile pictures;
iv. Defamation to a person or people;
v. Name calling and/or personal attacks;
vi. Comments that reveal personally identifying health information about other individuals;
vii. Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product;
viii. Comments that infringe on copyrights;
ix. Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile, and
x. Other comments that the OPHIE Social Media team deems inappropriate.
All links posted as comments on OPHIE posts will be reviewed and may be deleted.
Repeated violations of the OPHIE comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the OPHIE Facebook page.
We understand that social media is a 24/7 medium and your comments are welcome at any time. However, given the need to manage our staff resources, we generally only monitor comments and postings during regular business hours.
