underserved communities

What’s National Health Service Corps?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:54-07:00October 25th, 2012|Affordable Care Act|

The Affordable Care Act provided $1.5B nationally (through September 2015) to the National Health Service Corps to train and recruit more primary care providers via scholarships and loan repayment assistance. It’s a federal program been building healthy communities by connecting primary health care providers to areas of the United States with limited access to care [...]

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Healthy Homes

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 14th, 2011|General, Prevention|

For decades, removing lead (Pb) from the environment has been a public health priority because residual contamination from decades of using products containing harmful lead continued to cause health problems. Fortunately, the public health interventions (removing Pb from gas, paint, and cans) worked and today 99.9% of Arizona kids have blood lead levels below the standard. As [...]