County health department responsible for preventing epidemics and the spread of disease, protecting against environmental hazards and injuries, promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors and responding to disasters and assisting communities in recovery. Services include birth certificates, death certificates, wastewater regulation, tap water testing, food sanitation, hepatitis testing, HIV testing, lead poisoning screening, tuberculosis screening, home health, home nursing, long term home health care, immunizations, flu vaccines and WIC. ALSO KNOWN AS MCHD