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AZ’s Community Planning Matrix

By |2017-02-10T09:50:26-07:00May 14th, 2013|General|

Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about how a city’s General Plan is one tool for communities to define how they want their city or town to grow and improve population health and how city planning can have a real impact.  I wrote about how community residents can use a recently developed Toolkit put [...]

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AZ Cities’ General Plan Schedules

By |2017-02-10T09:50:28-07:00May 2nd, 2013|General|

A city’s General Plan is one tool for communities to define how they want their city or town to grow and improve population health.  Currently, Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, and Scottsdale are updating their General Plans, and each city has a variety of resources that give community members the opportunity to share their opinions and get [...]

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Prescription Painkiller Forum

By |2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00July 17th, 2012|General, Prevention|

We’re committed to reducing substance abuse in Arizona and we’re consistently reminding the public to get rid of old medication to reduce the number of unintentional poisonings.  With more Arizonans dying every year from misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers than car crashes- it's more important than ever to educate health care providers... so we’re hosting a forum to discuss this [...]

Bear Brains

By |2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 25th, 2012|General|

Some of our Laboratory scientists (Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Alexandra Bhatti, Heather Bickley and Charles Martin) are busy right now testing the brains of the 2 bears that were destroyed over the weekend to see if they had rabies.  You might have heard about the bear attacks, which happened in and around Payson recently. On Sunday, a [...]

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Fl- – An Inexpensive Public Health Intervention

By |2017-02-10T09:51:21-07:00January 11th, 2012|Prevention|

When I was a kid growing up in Tucson- it seemed like we lived at the dentist- and getting cavities filled was routine.  It’s way better these days because of a host of public health and dental product interventions…  but 75% of Arizona kids still have tooth decay by the time they’re in 3rd grade. Around 1900 [...]

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