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Baja Health Tourism

By Will Humble|2010-02-22T11:07:15-07:00February 22nd, 2010|General|

The Mexican Federal Government announced a new policy this week to promote medical tourism in Mexico. Medical tourism is when you go abroad for medical care. Their goal is to encourage U.S. residents (with an initial focus on the uninsured) to travel to Mexico for their medical needs, generating jobs and investment. Another objective is [...]

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Pressing Ahead

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00February 19th, 2010|General, Uncategorized|

This is what I shared with ADHS staff earlier this week - "Thanks again for all of your hard and creative work over the last year. We’ve made a great deal of progress despite the complicated financial problems that the State has faced. I’m not just saying that- I know it’s true and so do [...]

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ADHS Electronic Updates

By Will Humble|2010-02-18T08:29:02-07:00February 18th, 2010|General|

Please take a couple of minutes to sign up for our new ADHS electronic updates feature. When you sign up to receive electronic updates from the Department, you can click on the kinds of things that you want to receive, like our new “healthy and in-season recipe of the week”, media releases, immunizations newsletters and [...]

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Special Session & Sales Tax Referral

By Will Humble|2010-02-05T08:44:27-07:00February 5th, 2010|General|

The Governor called a special session of the Legislature this week (special session) to address various budget issues including education rollover payment issues, additional sale and leaseback issues, a sales tax referral, and a proration of income tax for out-of-state filers. All of these matters have a link to our budget and the future of [...]

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Special Session & Sales Tax Referral

By Will Humble|2010-02-05T08:44:27-07:00February 5th, 2010|General|

The Governor called a special session of the Legislature this week (special session) to address various budget issues including education rollover payment issues, additional sale and leaseback issues, a sales tax referral, and a proration of income tax for out-of-state filers. All of these matters have a link to our budget and the future of [...]

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A Year of Progress at ADHS

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:28-07:00February 4th, 2010|General, Newborn Screening, Preparedness, Prevention|

We started on this journey together a year ago. Thanks for being such good traveling companions. We’ve been through a lot. We’ve had challenges, fears, anxiety, good times, laughs, & fun. We’ve sacrificed some of our programs, but we’ve made a great deal of progress too. Overall- the year was a net plus. I say [...]

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Lancet Withdraws 12 Year Old Flawed Autism Article

By Will Humble|2010-02-03T08:27:42-07:00February 3rd, 2010|General, Preparedness|

An article published in the journal Lancet nearly 12 years ago set the public health world on fire. The article published by Wakefield and 12 other authors suggested that they had found a link between the MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccine and autism and bowel disease. Since that time, a great deal of research has [...]

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Vaccines, Homeless Count, Cardiac Care & Tribal Preparedness

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:28-07:00January 29th, 2010|General, Preparedness|

Leverage, Counting the Homeless, Tribal Preparedness Strategic Plan, Nursing Home Ratings, Cardiac Care Centers, Annual Reports Galore, Department Blog

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Vaccines, Homeless Count, Cardiac Care & Tribal Preparedness

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:28-07:00January 29th, 2010|General, Preparedness|

Leverage, Counting the Homeless, Tribal Preparedness Strategic Plan, Nursing Home Ratings, Cardiac Care Centers, Annual Reports Galore, Department Blog

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Salt, BPA, CCR & the Budget

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:29-07:00January 22nd, 2010|General, Newborn Screening, Preparedness, Prevention|

NaCl It’s been no secret that the U.S. (and Arizona) diet is high in salt- and almost 90% of that salt comes from pre-processed foods (as opposed to the salt that you might add while cooking or eating). Reducing dietary salt is an important public health target- and it’s among one of the cheapest and [...]

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