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Teach Your Kids Safe Listening to Prevent Irreversible Hearing Loss

By |2017-05-25T09:28:11-07:00May 25th, 2017|Preparedness, Prevention|

Does your child like to turn up the volume on their earbuds or headphones when listening to their favorite music? Audiologists are seeing the impacts of personal technology devices misused by children and teenagers and rank it as their top tech-related concern. They urge parents to teach safe listening to prevent irreversible and lifelong hearing [...]

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Do you have a preteen or teen? Protect their future with vaccines.

By |2017-02-10T09:48:42-07:00August 23rd, 2016|Preparedness|

As parents, we know making sure our kids eat healthy, are physically active, get plenty of sleep, and have regular physicals is crucial to their overall health. But did you also you know preteen and teens need vaccines that protect against serious and potentially life-threatening diseases like meningitis, whooping cough and cancers caused by the [...]

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STAND

By |2012-09-19T14:51:00-07:00September 19th, 2012|Prevention|

Our chronic disease prevention team and the county health departments, community partners, and Pima Prevention Partnership, officially launched STAND last week.  It’s a coalition of local youth groups that have banded together in a common cause against tobacco use.  It’s the culmination of a three-year effort to engage more youth in the actual planning and [...]

It’s Back to School for Teen Drivers

By |2011-08-29T08:18:00-07:00August 29th, 2011|General|

Back-to-school time means that a new bolus of high-schoolers that got their license over the summer are hitting the streets for the first time during the school year.  All the data suggests that the first year of driving is an especially important time for safe driving skill development.  Fortunately, our State has a “Graduated Drivers [...]

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