Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in human populations. In a department of public health, epidemiologists keep track of reported disease, births, deaths and do special surveys and studies to get to know the health status of the population. A Communicable disease is an illness caused by infectious agents or toxins transmitted from an infected person, animal or object to another susceptible person.
Transmission can occur person to person or through the environment.
Monthly communicable disease reports are available at this site. Click here to refer to these tables concerning communicable diseases reportable by law. No, the Arizona State Department of Health collects data for the entire state. To obtain more specific information than is available at this web site concerning morbidity, mortality, natality and census data, you must fill out a Request Form for Data Information and fax it to our office.