Preventive Health block grant – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Setting Public Health Grant Spending Priorities

By Cory Nelson|2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00May 8th, 2015|Prevention|

Public health has reach into many areas that you may not think about. Currently we’re working to reduce the number of prescription drug overdoses and deaths. The misuse of prescription drugs is a national epidemic. We’re working with the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission to attack the problem here. The funding for our prevention efforts comes from the Preventive Health and [...]

Federal Funds for Arizona Public Health

We use a lot of CDC grants in Arizona to promote public health. I’ve talked about what we do with the Maternal and Child Health, as well as the Behavioral Health, grants in previous blogs. There’s another grant that lets us focus on issues that are specifically tailored to Arizona. The Preventive Health block grant helps fund our [...]