Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 110-199 - Health › Chapter DHS 145 - Control Of Communicable Diseases › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section DHS 145.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Advanced practice nurse prescriber"
				  means an advanced practice nurse, as defined in s. N 8.02 (1), who under s.
				  441.16(2),
				  Stats., has been granted a certificate to issue prescription orders.
(2) "Case" means a person determined to have
				  a particular communicable disease on the basis of clinical or laboratory
				  criteria or both.
(3) "Chief
				  medical officer" means the person appointed by the state health officer under
				  s.
				  250.02(2),
				  Stats., to provide public health consultation and leadership in the program
				  area of acute and communicable disease and who serves also as state
				  epidemiologist for that program area.
(4) "Communicable disease" means a disease or
				  condition listed in Appendix A of this chapter.
(5) "Control" means to take actions designed
				  to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
(6) "Conveyance" means any publicly or
				  privately owned vehicle used for providing transportation services.
(7) "Date of onset" means the day on which
				  the case or suspected case experienced the first sign or symptom of the
				  communicable disease.
(8) "Day care
				  center" has the meaning prescribed in s.
				  48.65,
				  Stats., and includes nursery schools that fit that definition.
(9) "Department" means the department of
				  health services.
(10) "Food
				  handler" means a person who handles food utensils or who prepares, processes or
				  serves food or beverages for people other than members of his or her immediate
				  household.
(11) "Health care
				  facility" has the meaning prescribed in s.
				  155.01(6),
				  Stats., and includes providers of ambulatory health care.
(12) "HIV" means human immunodeficiency
				  virus.
(13) "Individual case report
				  form" means the form provided by the department for the purpose of reporting
				  communicable diseases.
(14)
				  "Investigation" means a systematic inquiry designed to identify factors which
				  contribute to the occurrence and spread of communicable diseases.
(15) "Laboratory" means any facility
				  certified under
				  42 USC
				  263a.
(16) "Local health department" means an
				  agency of local government that takes any of the forms specified in s.
				  250.01(4),
				  Stats.
(17) "Local health officer"
				  has the meaning prescribed in s.
				  250.01(5),
				  Stats., and applies to the person who is designated as the local health officer
				  for the place of residence of a case or suspected case of communicable
				  disease.
(18) "Organized program of
				  infection control" means written and implemented policies and procedures for
				  the purpose of surveillance, investigation, control and prevention of
				  infections in a health care facility.
(19) "Other disease or condition having the
				  potential to affect the health of other persons" means a disease that can be
				  transmitted from one person to another but that is not listed in Appendix A of
				  this chapter and therefore is not reportable under this chapter, although it is
				  listed in the official report of the American Public Health Association, unless
				  specified otherwise by the state epidemiologist.
Note:
The official report of the American
					 Public Health Association entitled
Control of Communicable Diseases
					 Manual
, 20th edition (2015), edited by David L. Heymann, is on file in
					 the Department's Division of Public Health and the Legislative Reference
					 Bureau, and is available for purchase from the American Public Health
					 Association, Publications Sales, PO Box 933019, Atlanta, GA
					 31193-3019.
(20) "Outbreak"
				  means an unusual aggregation of health events that are grouped together in a
				  short time period and limited geographic area.
(21) "Personal care" means the service
				  provided by one person to another person who is not a member of his or her
				  immediate household for the purpose of feeding, bathing, dressing, assisting
				  with personal hygiene, changing diapers, changing bedding and other services
				  involving direct physical contact.
(22) "Physician" means an individual
				  possessing the degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy or an
				  equivalent degree as determined by the medical examining board, and holding a
				  license granted by the board under s.
				  448.01(5),
				  Stats.
(23) "Public building" means
				  any privately or publicly owned building which is open to the public.
(24) "Public health intervention" means an
				  action designed to promote and protect the health of the public.
(25) "State epidemiologist" means the person
				  appointed by the state health officer under s.
				  250.02(1),
				  Stats., to be the person in charge of communicable disease control for the
				  state who serves also as chief medical officer for the acute and communicable
				  disease program area.
(26)
				  "Surveillance" means the systematic collection of data pertaining to the
				  occurrence of specific diseases, the analysis and interpretation of these data
				  and the dissemination of consolidated and processed information to those who
				  need to know.
(27) "Suspected case"
				  means a person thought to have a particular communicable disease on the basis
				  of clinical or laboratory criteria or both.