General – Page 43 – AZ Dept. of Health Services News

Smart, Strong and Driven – Arizona’s 2013 babies

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:56-07:00December 26th, 2013|General|

Arizona is on a great trajectory for success if you go by baby names. The most popular boy’s name in 2013 was Liam which means strong-willed warrior and the most popular girl’s name – Sophia – means wisdom. Liam, a form of the name William, jumped to first place from fourth last year, but it [...]

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Publishing Our Accreditation Success

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:56-07:00December 24th, 2013|General|

As soon as the health department accreditation movement started in early 2010 we quickly recognized that statewide public health accreditation could substantially help us with our goal of achieving improvements in public health outcomes in AZ. Our first task was to scope out the resources we’d need to achieve statewide accreditation and then tap into some [...]

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Arizona Public Health Association gets National Recognition

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:57-07:00December 18th, 2013|General|

Congratulations to Arizona Public Health Association (AzPHA) for gaining national recognition for its work- snagging the 2013 National Affiliate of the Year Award from the American Public Health Association. For 85 years, AzPHA has helped shape public health in Arizona working to create smoke-free environments and access to healthcare. In this year alone, the Arizona affiliate [...]

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Solve the Outbreak 2.0

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:57-07:00December 16th, 2013|General|

CDC just updated the free iPad app called Solve the Outbreak... which turns you into a virtual disease detective. The free app now has six newly released outbreaks. Get clues, analyze data and solve the case. Do you quarantine the village? Interview the sick? Do you run more lab tests before you draw conclusions and conduct [...]

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Interested in Developing a “Family Health Portrait”?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:57-07:00December 11th, 2013|General|

We’ve known for a long time that your family health history can have a profound impact on your risks for certain inheritable diseases and illnesses. Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to track your family health history. The Surgeon General's Office has developed an internet-based tool called “My Family Health Portrait” which makes [...]

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Introducing Health-e-Arizona Plus

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:58-07:00December 6th, 2013|General|

AHCCCS and ADES have rolled out a new website that makes it easier than ever to enroll for Medicaid and other benefits. It’s called Health-e-Arizona Plus… and it’s Arizona’s one-stop-shop for easy Medicaid enrollment. Health-e-Arizona Plus provides an easy pathway to apply for a full range of AHCCCS and ADES benefits and local health access programs like the Supplemental [...]

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Typhoon Haiyan & Public Health

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 29th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General, Preparedness, Prevention|

Like conflict and wars, typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) destroyed basic services for food, water, health care and shelter in the Central Philippines. This disaster was declared a “Level 3” Emergency by the UN, meaning there’s substantial impact on the health of people and it can’t be managed by a country or region alone. The [...]

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Thanks for the Food

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 29th, 2013|General|

Thanks to all of you that made this year’s food drive a success again. We started off a little slow this year, but donations really picked up this week and we ended up collecting more than 1,000 Kg of food… with almost half coming in this week. We haven’t broken out the finals for [...]

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Excellent “Public Health 101” PowerPoint

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 27th, 2013|General|

One of the objectives in our Strategic Map is Building Awareness of Public Health Value. One of the ways we can do that is to educate community groups, students and other Stakeholders about the return on investment that public health provides and how the system works. Lucky for us the CDC recently published a PowerPoint [...]

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Chronic Disease Calculator E-tool.

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 25th, 2013|General|

The CDC just developed a great new Cost Calculator that provides state-level annual medical expenditure and absenteeism estimates for 10 chronic conditions. The tool provides medical expenditures for all of AZ for all payers as well as specific payers Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurers. The 10 chronic conditions are arthritis; asthma; cancer; cardiovascular diseases (congestive [...]

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