disease prevention

New Prevention Resources

By |2017-02-10T09:49:51-07:00February 6th, 2014|Prevention|

CDC’s 2013 Prevention Status Reports have just been released publicly on CDC’s website.  You’ll find reports specific to Arizona on topics like nutrition, physical activity, teen pregnancy, tobacco use, HIV, heart disease, motor vehicle crashes, and prescription drug abuse.  Reports include a few data indicators of how we compare to the U.S., as well as [...]

Now Accepting Applications for Loan Repayment Programs

By |2017-02-10T09:49:53-07:00January 30th, 2014|General|

Getting access to primary care providers is critical to disease prevention.  The problem is that there aren’t enough primary care providers nationwide.  Arizona is short by about 300 primary care physicians, 250 dentists and about 70 psychiatrists. That’s why Arizona has been aggressive in their efforts to recruit providers to work in Arizona, specifically in [...]

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Program Spotlight: Lab Licensure

By |2017-02-10T09:50:45-07:00January 24th, 2013|Licensing|

Those of you that actually read these posts know that we run Arizona’s benchmark public health laboratory.  But many of you might not know that we also license and inspect clinical and environmental labs in AZ and even some in other parts of the country through our Clinical and Environmental Laboratory Licensing and Compliance programs.  [...]

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Adult Vaccination Rates

By |2017-02-10T09:52:27-07:00February 8th, 2010|Preparedness|

The Trust for America’s Health released a report about adult immunization rates across the country last week at: healthyamericans.org.  The Complete Report (PDF 0.2Mb) provides all of the details…  but for a snapshot, the report says that about 69% of Arizona’s seniors have been vaccinated for pneumococcal disease. Vaccinations are an important part of public [...]

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