Vital Statistics

Vital Records Wins National Award for Innovative Event Held on the Navajo Nation  

By |2019-07-29T08:54:04-07:00July 29th, 2019|Licensing|

The ADHS Office of Vital Records recently won the Constellation Awards from the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS). The award recognizes the innovative efforts to collectively host a delayed birth registration event with vital records departments from Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah on the Navajo Nation. The event helps elderly [...]

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1920 ADHS Annual Report

By |2014-05-29T10:16:47-07:00May 29th, 2014|General|

With our Annual Report coming up soon, I was surfing the web to get some ideas last night and ran across our 1920 ADHS Annual Report.  Call me a public health geek, but I couldn’t put my iPad down. The Annual Report covers our agency activities that year- things like our new (1919) Midwifery regulations, [...]

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Annual Abortion Report Published

By |2017-02-10T09:51:00-07:00September 18th, 2012|General, Prevention|

A couple of years ago a bill was passed that required our agency to do a comprehensive statistical report about abortion in Arizona. We published our second annual report this week… which includes data compiled from elective abortion procedures reports, complications from abortions reports and petitions filed authorizing abortions to minors. Facilities that provide the [...]

Babies, Babies, Babies

By |2010-10-27T14:32:02-07:00October 27th, 2010|Preparedness|

More interesting information from Vital Statistics– this time about babies and births in Arizona.  The number of births each year in AZ has been on a downward trend for the last couple of years, and 2009 was no exception.  There were a lot fewer babies born in 2009 (92,616)   than in 2007 (102,687)- which is [...]

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Another New AZ Health Status & Vital Statistics Report

By |2017-02-10T09:52:05-07:00September 28th, 2010|Preparedness|

We published one of our most popular annual documents this month, our 500-page Arizona Health Status and Vital Statistics Annual Report.  It provides refined health statistics on pregnancies, births, reportable diseases, deaths, inpatient hospitalizations, emergency room visits, marriages, divorces and population of the State. The site got more than 2,000,000 hits last year!  The report provides [...]

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Another New AZ Health Status & Vital Statistics Report

By |2017-02-10T09:52:06-07:00September 28th, 2010|Preparedness|

We published one of our most popular annual documents this month, our 500-page Arizona Health Status and Vital Statistics Annual Report.  It provides refined health statistics on pregnancies, births, reportable diseases, deaths, inpatient hospitalizations, emergency room visits, marriages, divorces and population of the State. The site got more than 2,000,000 hits last year!  The report provides [...]

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New Vital Statistics computer application

By |2017-02-10T09:52:11-07:00August 16th, 2010|General|

We have developed a new computer application and website to support the new abortion reporting requirements introduced with the passing of SB1304 into law.  This new law requires additional information to be provided to AHDS when abortions are performed or complications develop.  Currently, medical providers are required to report particular information to ADHS in an effort to collect [...]

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Arizona Cancer Registry

By |2017-02-10T09:52:19-07:00May 5th, 2010|General, Preparedness|

The ADHS Arizona Cancer Registry is a population-based surveillance system that collects, manages and analyzes information on the incidence, survival and mortality of persons having been diagnosed with cancer. We began collecting cancer case information in 1981.  The Registry has data available describing cancer in Arizona using a variety of descriptors, including site of origin, age, [...]

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