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AzPHA Membership Helps You Grow as a Public Health Professional

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:32-07:00April 23rd, 2013|General, Preparedness, Prevention|

Public health is a vast network of community partners that includes government agencies, medical professionals, community groups, advocates, private industry, and individual citizens- all working together to make our communities healthier. The Arizona Public Health Association is a key Stakeholder by pulling all the partners together. They’re a non-profit organization that’s been around since 1928. [...]

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City Planning & Population Health

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:32-07:00April 22nd, 2013|General, Prevention|

Last week I wrote about how improving the health of Arizonans is critical to improving the quality of life and reducing health care costs… and that effective strategies are ones that incorporate the principles of population health. A city’s General Plan can be a large public health lever to improve outcomes because it’s the long-range planning [...]

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Arizona Medical Marijuana Program Snapshot at 2

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:32-07:00April 20th, 2013|General|

This month marked the 2nd anniversary of our Arizona Medical Marijuana Program. We began issuing cards to qualifying patients 2 years ago this week, and as of April 16th we had about 38,000 qualified patients in AZ. On the Dispensary side of the house… 16 dispensaries are approved to operate in AZ, and another 13 [...]

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Arizona State Public Health Laboratory celebrates Laboratory Professionals Week!

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:33-07:00April 17th, 2013|General|

Guest post from Kathryn Wangsness, Chief for the Office of Laboratory Services The Arizona State Public Health Lab is celebrating the dedication of its laboratory personnel next week as part of Laboratory Professionals Week. Laboratory Professionals Week was originally established to honor the more than 300,000 scientists, technicians and pathologists who perform testing vital to [...]

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AZ Brain Injury Resources Continue to Expand

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:33-07:00April 16th, 2013|General|

Last year we created Arizona’s Excellence in Pre-hospital Injury Care project- which is aimed at improving brain injury outcomes in AZ. The National Institutes of Health chose AZ as the only state to evaluate the national standards for pre-hospital emergency care of brain injury. Since we got started about a year ago- we’ve recruited almost 100 [...]

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AZ’s 911 Telephone-Assisted CPR Initiative Goes Global

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:33-07:00April 12th, 2013|General|

If you’re a regular reader, you know how much value I place on using data to decide if interventions are successful and then sharing successful interventions with others. The way we helped change to hands-only CPR is a great example. We used evidence to craft our intervention (modifying how CPR is done), measured its effectiveness, and [...]

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What’s Population Health?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:34-07:00April 9th, 2013|General|

No doubt you’ve heard the term “population health” bandied about these days… especially as the nation wrestles with finding ways to keep people healthier while decreasing health care costs. But what exactly is population health? At its core, population health examines groups of people, their health outcomes, and the elements that influence those outcomes. Examples of things that influence health [...]

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National Public Health Week: A Celebration of Health Improvement

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:34-07:00April 5th, 2013|General|

This week we’re celebrating National Public Health Week… a week that helps us recognize the work we do to keep our communities healthy. Public health focuses on improving our overall health by making the entire healthcare system stronger. The theme of this year’s celebration is Return on Investment. This isn’t just an investment of money, [...]

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Medicare’s Physician Bonus Program

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:34-07:00April 3rd, 2013|General|

Healthcare providers including MDs, DOs, dentists, podiatrists, psychiatrists and chiropractors that work in a Health Professional Shortage Area (and meet the requirements) can apply for the Medicare Physician Bonus Program which qualifies for a 10% reimbursement bonus if they’re providing services to Medicare beneficiaries in a medical shortage area. Medical providers can check online to [...]

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CDC’s Valley Fever Article Spotlights AZ

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:34-07:00April 2nd, 2013|General|

Valley Fever has been making news across the country today. A new report in this week’s CDC’s weekly epidemiology report shows that Valley Fever numbers have gone up substantially in AZ over the last 10 years. Part of the increase is probably due to the fact that Valley Fever became reportable a few years ago- [...]

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