HRS §321-311
Tracking illnesses and injuries linked to the environment
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗The health department must keep a system to watch for human illnesses and injuries caused by the environment, but only if it thinks it's useful and has enough money. The system tracks how often these health problems happen and where, to understand them better.
state agencies
The statute, as written — Environmentally-related illness and injury surveillance
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The department of health shall maintain, as it deems advisable and within available resources, an environmentally-related human illness and injury surveillance system for conditions determined by the director to present a threat to public health in order to ascertain the incidence, distribution, and other epidemiological characteristics of these illnesses and injuries.
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