Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-3 - Communicable Diseases › Section 3701-3-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in Chapter 3701-3 of the Administrative Code:
(A) "Antimicrobial" means an agent that kills
			 microorganisms or suppresses microorganism multiplication or growth.
(B) "Arthropod" means an organism of the
			 phylum Arthropoda, such as an insect, spider, mite or tick.
(C) "Board of health" means the board of
			 health of the city or general health district established by section
			 3709.01 of the Revised Code, or
			 the authority having the duties of a board of health in any city as authorized
			 by section 3709.05 of the Revised
			 Code.
(D) "Bioterrorism" means the
			 intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or
			 biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology, or any
			 naturally occurring or bioengineered component of a microorganism, virus,
			 infectious substance, or biological product, to cause death, disease, or other
			 biological malfunction in a human, animal, plant, or other living organism as a
			 means of influencing the conduct of government or intimidating or coercing a
			 population.
(E) "Child care center"
			 means any private home, institution, or public or private facility in which
			 child care is provided for one or more infants, toddlers, pre-school children,
			 and school children outside of school hours, during any part of the twenty-four
			 hour day, by persons other than the parents or legal guardians of the children
			 in care.
(F) "Department" means the
			 Ohio department of health.
(G)
			 "Diarrhea" means three or more loose stools in a twenty-four hour
			 period.
(H) "Director" means the
			 director of health or his or her designee.
(I) "Endemic" means the constant presence of
			 a disease or infectious agent within a given geographic area.
(J) "Epidemic" or "outbreak" means the
			 occurrence of cases of disease in numbers greater than expected in a particular
			 population or for a particular period of time.
(K) "Exclude" means to bar from
			 participation.
(L) "Event" means an
			 important happening or occurrence that results from an actual or suspected act
			 of bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, established or novel infectious
			 agents, or biological or chemical toxins.
(M) "Food handler" means a person who
			 prepares or serves food intended for human consumption.
(N) "Health care provider" means any person
			 or government entity that provides health care services to individuals. "Health
			 care provider" includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, medical clinics and
			 offices, special care facilities, medical laboratories, physicians, dentists,
			 physician assistants, registered and licensed practical nurses, emergency
			 medical service organization personnel, and ambulance service
			 personnel.
(O) "Health district"
			 means a city or general health district as created by Chapter 3709. of the
			 Revised Code.
(P) "Incidence" means
			 the number of new cases of a disease occurring during a specified interval of
			 time in a defined population.
(Q)
			 "Infected individual" means a person whose body harbors a specific
			 microorganism capable of producing disease, whether or not the person is
			 experiencing signs or symptoms of the disease.
(R) "Isolation" means the separation of an
			 infected individual from others during the period of disease communicability in
			 such a way that prevents, as far as possible, the direct or indirect conveyance
			 of an infectious agent to those who are susceptible to infection or who may
			 spread the agent to others.
(S)
			 "Pandemic" means an epidemic disease that is occurring throughout a very wide
			 area, usually several countries or continents, and usually affecting a large
			 proportion of the population.
(T)
			 "Poison prevention and treatment center" or "center" means an entity designated
			 as a poison prevention and treatment center by the director of health under
			 section 3701.20 of the Revised
			 Code.
(U) "Period of
			 communicability" means the interval during which an infected individual or
			 animal is shedding the specific microorganism of a communicable disease in such
			 a manner that those who are susceptible could acquire the infection.
(V) Mammal means a warm blooded animal, other
			 than a human being, usually with hair, that gives birth to live young, which
			 are fed with milk secreted by the female mammary gland.
(W) "Quarantine" means the restriction of the
			 movements or activities of a well individual or animal who has been exposed to
			 a communicable disease during the period of communicability of that disease and
			 in such a manner that transmission of the disease may have occurred. The
			 duration of the quarantine ordered shall be equivalent to the usual incubation
			 period of the disease to which the susceptible person or animal was
			 exposed.
(X) "Sensitive occupation"
			 means direct food handling, direct patient care, the handling of food or
			 provision of direct care to children in a child care center, or any other
			 occupation which provides significant opportunity for an infected individual to
			 transmit infectious disease agents.
(Y) "Sexually-transmitted disease" or
			 "venereal disease" is an infectious disease commonly contracted through sexual
			 contact such as chancroid, chlamydia, gonococcal infection, granuloma
			 inguinale, human immunodeficiency virus infection, lymphogranuloma venereum, or
			 syphilis.
(Z) "Surveillance" means,
			 in the public health service, the systematic collection, analysis,
			 interpretation, and dissemination, of health data on an on-going basis, to gain
			 knowledge of the pattern of disease occurrence and potential in a community in
			 order to control and prevent disease in the community.
(AA) "Susceptible person" means a person
			 that, when exposed to an infectious microorganism, may not possess sufficient
			 resistance to prevent contracting the infection or disease.