AGENCY: Southwest Utah Public Health Department (Utah)

SERIES: 14316
TITLE: Environmental/Occupational investigations case files
DATES: 1972-
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by surname

DESCRIPTION: These are records of epidemiological investigations of environmental and occupational public health hazards. They help prevent those hazards, and assist in short and long-term health studies. As stated in the Utah Code of Communicable Disease Rules, the Department of Health collects this information in order to promote and protect the public health and to prevent and control disease. Includes epidemiological investigations of individuals and/or groups exposed to environmental health hazards, health risk analyses of human exposures to chemical contaminants, cancer cluster investigations, and adverse reproductive outcomes. Medical records may contain patient name, address, sex, race, age, type of exposure, company where possible exposure occurred. The State Bureau of Epidemiology maintains the record copy of these records permanently.

RETENTION

Retain for 7 year(s) after case is closed

DISPOSITION

Destroy.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is proposed and has not yet been approved.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 7 years after after completion of investigation and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

This disposition is based on

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

SECONDARY DESIGNATION

Private. Patient/case files

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