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Childhood Obesity Assessment Grant

By | June 16th, 2010|Prevention|

Congratulations to our Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity for their grant award announced this month from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Leadership for Healthy Communities program.  Over the coming year, we’ll be strengthening our capacity to make a dent in childhood obesity by conducting a health impact assessment to prevent childhood [...]

Smoke Free Arizona Annual Report

By | June 4th, 2010|Preparedness|

Our Smoke Free Arizona team published our 3rd annual ADHS Smoke-Free Arizona Annual Report 2010 this week.  The report found (just like last year) that compliance the law is excellent, thanks in large part to the common-sense approach that we took when implementing the act since 2007.  Over the last year, the county health departments conducted [...]

2010 American Fitness Report

By | June 2nd, 2010|General, Prevention|

Which city do you think is overall more fit and healthy, Phoenix or Pittsburgh.  I won’t give you the answer, you’ll have to go to this year’s The ACSM American Fitness Index Report at  http://www.americanfitnessindex.org/ to get the answer.  They put this report out every year to help city planners, policy makers, health educators, and [...]

Childhood Obesity Task Force Report

By | May 17th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The President signed a Memorandum in February establishing the Task Force on Childhood Obesity and charged them with developing an interagency action plan to solve the problem of obesity in the US.  The Task Force included the Secretaries of the Health, Agriculture, Interior, Education, Office of Management and Budget, Assistant to the President and Chief of [...]

Clostridium difficile

By | April 28th, 2010|Licensing, Preparedness, Prevention|

The Maricopa County Department of Public Health has discovered a pretty significant outbreak of a bacteria called Clostridium difficile this week.  This organism can cause severe diarrheal illness, and is commonly associated with antibiotic use and healthcare facilities.  Most people who come into contact with Clostridium difficile do not develop disease.  Being on long-term antibiotics [...]

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New “Go Low” Campaign

By | April 12th, 2010|Prevention|

Let’s start with a quick quiz on this one… Which of the following food items contains more fat: 2 slices of pepperoni pizza 1 order of large fries 3 glasses of whole milk 8 strips of bacon The answer is 3. 3 glasses of whole milk.  If you pour whole milk at mealtime for your [...]

Breakfast & Lunch

By | April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

The US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, passed legislation out of their Committee to reauthorize WIC and the other Child Nutrition Programs last week. It’s called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill http://ag.senate.gov/site/legislation.html includes the reauthorization of the free and reduced lunch and breakfast programs.  I was in DC a couple [...]

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Breakfast & Lunch

By | April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

The US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, passed legislation out of their Committee to reauthorize WIC and the other Child Nutrition Programs last week. It’s called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill http://ag.senate.gov/site/legislation.html includes the reauthorization of the free and reduced lunch and breakfast programs.  I was in DC a couple [...]

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ADHS Budget Summary

By | March 29th, 2010|General|

I don’t have to tell you that we’ve faced unprecedented challenges over the last couple of years.  State revenues have declined for nearly 3 years now, and we’ve dramatically reduced our spending and staffing levels in an effort to bring spending in line with state revenues.  Excluding the money that goes toward the matching funds [...]

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Sunset Hearing

By | March 25th, 2010|General|

We had our agency Sunset Hearing last Wednesday in the Senate.  Every 10 years our agency comes up for a redetermination to see if the mission of the department is still necessary etc.  If so, then ADHS is “reauthorized”- hopefully for another 10 years.  The bill (HB 2029) passed out of the House several weeks [...]

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