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CDC Sortable Stats

By |2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00September 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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Our Newest Decision-making Tool

By |2017-02-10T09:50:21-07:00June 24th, 2013|Behavioral Health|

The core of our decision-making as an agency relies on evidence.  Evidence can be scientific like surveillance or research or it can be administrative or financial.  Whichever way you slice it- the key is to get good reliable information so that our teams can make effective decisions as we execute our mission.   One of the [...]

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State By State Injury Report

By |2017-02-10T09:51:10-07:00May 29th, 2012|General|

People get hurt because of unsafe acts and unsafe conditions. It’s always easier to deal with unsafe conditions- because you can often make a system change and have an impact.  Changing unsafe acts (behaviors) is a lot harder.  Anyway- a new report came out this week called The Facts Hurt: A State by State Injury [...]

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AZ Data to Drive Public Health Interventions

By |2017-02-10T09:51:30-07:00October 24th, 2011|Behavioral Health, Prevention|

Making good decisions about prioritizing which public health issues to tackle and how to target our interventions rests on our ability to collect and analyze public health data.  For infectious disease surveillance that means have a base of solid reporting and surveillance so we can analyze infectious disease trends.  For chronic diseases, we need to [...]

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