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What’s Community Paramedicine?

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:10-07:00 September 3rd, 2013|General|

Community paramedicine is a paradigm shift for the use of paramedics in the US. It’s an emerging model in which paramedics function outside their usual emergency response & transport roles- delving into the world of primary care. As the health care world increasingly shifts toward prevention and well care- the system will increasingly demand more folks [...]

CDC Sortable Stats

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00 September 2nd, 2013|General|

There’s a new CDC Sortable Stats web application that went live a couple of weeks ago that provides an interactive tool to analyze behavioral risk factors and health indicators compiled from various published CDC and federal sources. You can search by state for things like death rates (e.g. infant mortality, heart disease, motor vehicle death rates, [...]

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Marijuana v. Cannabis

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00 August 30th, 2013|General|

Are Marijuana and Cannabis the same thing when it comes to Arizona Law? The short answer is no- and the distinction may be an important one for Qualified Patients. The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act provides registry identification card holders and dispensaries a number of legal protections for their medical use of Marijuana pursuant to the [...]

Project Quit Kickoff

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00 August 30th, 2013|General|

Tobacco is one of the most difficult addictions to break. A successful tobacco quitter can make on average 10 attempts before they’re able to finally kick the habit. This week we launched Project Quit, a new initiative developed in partnership with the Arizona Smokers Helpline a.k.a. ASHLine to showcase the tobacco quit process. Project Quit follows [...]

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Primary Care Provider Loan Repayment

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00 August 29th, 2013|General|

Building Arizona’s inventory of primary care providers has been a priority of ours for many years- and it’s increasingly important as we move toward Medicaid restoration. As one of our many initiatives in our Bureau of Health Systems Development, our Workforce Program hosted a presentation to Physician Assistant students at the NAU Phoenix campus last [...]

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3 Medical Conditions Move to Hearing

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00 August 28th, 2013|General|

Three of the petitions to add debilitating conditions to the medical marijuana program that we received last month will be moving forward to a public hearing, which will be on Tuesday, October 29 from 9 am to noon in our State Lab conference room. We'll also broadcast the hearing via Livestream. The petitions are for PTSD, Migraines, [...]

Coming Attraction: AZ’s 1st State Health Assessment

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00 August 23rd, 2013|General|

Publication of Arizona’s very first State Health Assessment is just around the corner The 2013 Arizona State Health Assessment will use AZ quantitative and qualitative data to assess the public health status of the state. The end product will be a comprehensive summary of the 15 leading health issues that have the greatest impact in Arizona. [...]

Camelus dromedarius & Our State Public Health Lab

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:12-07:00 August 16th, 2013|General|

Last year, a new SARS-like virus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) broke out in Saudi Arabia. Since then, 94 cases of the very lethal disease have been reported by the World Health Organization (50% of the cases have been fatal). All the cases have been on the Arabian Peninsula. The virus causes severe [...]

Breastfeeding is Helping to Reduce Childhood Obesity

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:13-07:00 August 12th, 2013|General|

Increasing the percentage of women that choose to breastfeed is a critical evidence-based practice for addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. Here in Arizona, we have a lot to celebrate during World Breastfeeding Week- because of our collective work to increase breastfeeding is paying off. Arizona’s percentage of babies who begin breastfeeding has jumped to 83% [...]

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Computer Issues Strike Again

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:14-07:00 August 10th, 2013|General|

Early this morning the computer data center that we use for ADHS programs lost power. When this happens, all those systems like the birth and death certificate system, the Women, Infant and Children's system and the medical marijuana system are not available until the power is restored and we can bring them back online. Fixing the [...]

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