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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

Solve the Outbreak 2.0

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:57-07:00 December 16th, 2013|General|

CDC just updated the free iPad app called Solve the Outbreak... which turns you into a virtual disease detective. The free app now has six newly released outbreaks. Get clues, analyze data and solve the case. Do you quarantine the village? Interview the sick? Do you run more lab tests before you draw conclusions and conduct [...]

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Interested in Developing a “Family Health Portrait”?

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:57-07:00 December 11th, 2013|General|

We’ve known for a long time that your family health history can have a profound impact on your risks for certain inheritable diseases and illnesses. Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to track your family health history. The Surgeon General's Office has developed an internet-based tool called “My Family Health Portrait” which makes [...]

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Introducing Health-e-Arizona Plus

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:58-07:00 December 6th, 2013|General|

AHCCCS and ADES have rolled out a new website that makes it easier than ever to enroll for Medicaid and other benefits. It’s called Health-e-Arizona Plus… and it’s Arizona’s one-stop-shop for easy Medicaid enrollment. Health-e-Arizona Plus provides an easy pathway to apply for a full range of AHCCCS and ADES benefits and local health access programs like the Supplemental [...]

Typhoon Haiyan & Public Health

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00 November 29th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General, Preparedness, Prevention|

Like conflict and wars, typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) destroyed basic services for food, water, health care and shelter in the Central Philippines. This disaster was declared a “Level 3” Emergency by the UN, meaning there’s substantial impact on the health of people and it can’t be managed by a country or region alone. The [...]

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Thanks for the Food

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00 November 29th, 2013|General|

Thanks to all of you that made this year’s food drive a success again. We started off a little slow this year, but donations really picked up this week and we ended up collecting more than 1,000 Kg of food… with almost half coming in this week. We haven’t broken out the finals for [...]

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Excellent “Public Health 101” PowerPoint

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00 November 27th, 2013|General|

One of the objectives in our Strategic Map is Building Awareness of Public Health Value. One of the ways we can do that is to educate community groups, students and other Stakeholders about the return on investment that public health provides and how the system works. Lucky for us the CDC recently published a PowerPoint [...]

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Chronic Disease Calculator E-tool.

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00 November 25th, 2013|General|

The CDC just developed a great new Cost Calculator that provides state-level annual medical expenditure and absenteeism estimates for 10 chronic conditions. The tool provides medical expenditures for all of AZ for all payers as well as specific payers Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurers. The 10 chronic conditions are arthritis; asthma; cancer; cardiovascular diseases (congestive [...]

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Healthy Thanksgiving

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00 November 25th, 2013|General|

Whether you’re hosting a Thanksgiving celebration or attending as a guest, you can help make the healthy choice the easy choice for your friends and family. Consider making a healthier version of an old favorite to share. This recipe for Corn Bread Crusted Turkey would go great served with this slightly modified recipe for a [...]

Empowering the El Congreso Internacional de Promoción de la Salud

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00 November 19th, 2013|General|

I was fortunate to attend the 2nd annual “El Congreso Internacional de Promoción de la Salud (CIPS)” last week in Hermosillo. There were more than 400 public health attendees from 17 countries at the conference. I presented our pre-school Empower program…. which empowers kids to make good choices about nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco using age-appropriate vehicles including costumed characters and a coloring book. [...]

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Newborn Screening Rulemaking

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:00-07:00 November 16th, 2013|General, Newborn Screening|

Our Newborn Screening Program ensures that each newborn is tested for 28 inherited disorders and hearing problems. The goal is to help kids avoid illness, developmental delays and even death by quickly identifying problems and swiftly letting their doctors know so they can implement interventions. On any given day our newborn screening team tests from [...]

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