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Here you will find topics ranging from current events that affect public health in Arizona to overall information about the Arizona Department of Health Services

National Latino Children’s Summit This Week in Phoenix

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:29-07:00 September 30th, 2014|General|

Child-serving organizations and community leaders will be meeting at the 2014 National Latino Children’s Summit on October 3rd in Phoenix. It’s called The State of Latino Children: Our Future – and it’ll focus on health, child safety, education and more. At the summit, Dyanne Herrera from our Office of Women and Children’s Health will provide [...]

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Arizona Health Improvement Plan Broadcast Posted

By Will Humble| 2014-09-29T07:02:36-07:00 September 29th, 2014|General|

Our most recent AzHIP broadcast is posted to the Arizona State Health Assessment section (look under the Resources heading). A big thank you to everyone involved for their hard work. The next set of heavy lifting is putting together the working groups that will assemble gap analysis and the intervention ideas that will flesh out [...]

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Trash Your Stash

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:29-07:00 September 26th, 2014|General|

Abuse of prescription drugs is a public health epidemic, but you can do your part in helping to curb access to prescription drugs with one simple step: get rid of your old and unused medications. This weekend is the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day held by the DEA and state and local partners. Removing [...]

Congrats to Emily

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:29-07:00 September 19th, 2014|General|

Congratulations to Emily Jenkins, the President and CEO of the Arizona Council of Human Service Providers who was recognized by the Arizona Capitol Times as the Leader of the Year in Public Policy for Healthcare this week. The award recognizes individuals and organizations for advancing public policy that positively impacts the lives of Arizonans. Categories [...]

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New ASTHO Presidential Challenge: Healthy Aging

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:29-07:00 September 17th, 2014|General|

I was at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Annual Meeting and Policy Summit most of last week. This year’s meeting was entitled Achieving Population Health in Evolving Systems. We shared best practices with each other about different ways states are approaching population health. We heard from the Acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Boris D. [...]

Community Integrated Paramedicine Taking Shape in AZ

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00 September 16th, 2014|General|

Community Integrated Paramedicine programs are beginning to come together in two primary business models in Arizona. The first one has EMS (emergency medical services) agencies partnering with hospitals to reduce the frequency that patients are re-admitted to hospitals. In the second, EMS agencies are cultivating social service referrals to reduce the frequency that folks use emergency departments [...]

Enterovirus D68

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00 September 15th, 2014|General|

Arizona joined the states asking CDC for laboratory testing for Enterovirus D68 on Friday. We’ve had an increase in the number of children hospitalized and treated for upper respiratory illness. Enterovirus is in the family with the common cold and illness is usually limited to cold symptoms (stuffy or runny nose and cough). There seem [...]

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2013 AZ Abortion Annual Report

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00 September 12th, 2014|General|

We publish several reports every year that are required by Arizona law…including our annual abortion surveillance report. We published our 4th Abortion Surveillance Report this week. Overall, the abortion rate in Arizona was stable from 2012 to 2013, however, the rate of abortions among 18-19 year old women decreased more than 30% between 2012 and 2013…the [...]

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The Legal Mechanics of State Government & PTSD

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00 September 11th, 2014|General|

State government authority and policy is driven by laws that are established by the Legislature and carried out by the Governor through the Executive Branch. Sometimes laws are passed directly by the voters (called a voter initiative). Many state laws require state agencies to develop regulations to “flesh out” the laws they pass by giving [...]

Awesome ASH Teamwork

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00 September 10th, 2014|General|

Thanks for all your hard work in changing our culture of care at the Hospital. It’s been 2 years since we implemented new processes to change how we work with patients. We’ve revised roles and responsibilities for unit staff and campus support, trained all our staff in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, which is an evidence-based, best [...]

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