Preparedness – Page 53 – AZ Dept. of Health Services News

Items in the Preparedness category will cover everything from Emergency Medical Services to vaccination programs. This division at ADHS tracks contagious disease, coordinates emergency preparedness activity, licenses EMTs and Paramedics, regulates ambulance companies, authorizes special hospital designations like cardiac care center and Level IV trauma center, issues birth and death certificates, and tracks critical health data through various sources including hospital discharge information.

Arizona Youth Begin the Annual Hunt for Mosquitoes
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Arizona Youth Begin the Annual Hunt for Mosquitoes

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Arizona Youth Begin the Annual Hunt for Mosquitoes

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:42-07:00August 24th, 2016|Preparedness|

The Arizona Department of Health Services, Maricopa County Department of Public Health, and the University of Arizona will kick-off the second Great Arizona Mosquito Hunt this week. The Great Arizona Mosquito Hunt began as a collaborative project in 2015 to teach high school students about mosquito biology and emerging mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue, chikungunya, [...]

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Do you have a preteen or teen? Protect their future with vaccines.
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Do you have a preteen or teen? Protect their future with vaccines.

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Do you have a preteen or teen? Protect their future with vaccines.

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:42-07:00August 23rd, 2016|Preparedness|

As parents, we know making sure our kids eat healthy, are physically active, get plenty of sleep, and have regular physicals is crucial to their overall health. But did you also you know preteen and teens need vaccines that protect against serious and potentially life-threatening diseases like meningitis, whooping cough and cancers caused by the [...]

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Take Precautions to Protect your Family and Pets from Rabies
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Take Precautions to Protect your Family and Pets from Rabies

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Take Precautions to Protect your Family and Pets from Rabies

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 18th, 2016|Preparedness|

Rabies is a virus spread by the bite of or contact with saliva of an infected animal. The disease causes damage to the nervous system and causes death once symptoms appear. In Arizona, bats, skunks, and foxes are the main sources of rabies. Rabies is not uncommon in Arizona wildlife, and the virus occurs naturally [...]

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Keep Your Family Safe from Disease while Swimming
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Keep Your Family Safe from Disease while Swimming

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Keep Your Family Safe from Disease while Swimming

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 17th, 2016|Preparedness|

The Maricopa County Department of Public Health recently issued a press release alerting the community of a parasitic illness called Cryptosporidiosis, or Crypto, that was linked to recreational water facilities in the county. Since June 1, 2016, 131 confirmed and probable cases of Crypto have been reported statewide, from multiple counties. Historically, an average of 11.6 [...]

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A Healthy Start: Reasons to Vaccinate Your Young Children
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A Healthy Start: Reasons to Vaccinate Your Young Children

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A Healthy Start: Reasons to Vaccinate Your Young Children

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 16th, 2016|Preparedness|

Immunization gives parents the safe, proven power to protect their children from 14 serious and potentially deadly diseases before they turn two years old. To celebrate the importance of immunizations for a healthy start and throughout our lives, and to make sure children are protected with all the vaccines they need, we continue to join [...]

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Using Technology to More Effectively Manage Outbreaks
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Using Technology to More Effectively Manage Outbreaks

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Using Technology to More Effectively Manage Outbreaks

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 15th, 2016|Preparedness|

In Arizona, outbreaks are reported and managed by local public health departments using a module in our electronic disease surveillance system, MEDSIS. Outbreak Module’s integration into MEDSIS allows users to easily link existing infectious disease cases to an outbreak and retrieve outbreak data for analysis. The data collected in this module has replaced our paper-based outbreak [...]

A Healthy Start: Pregnancy and Vaccines
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A Healthy Start: Pregnancy and Vaccines

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A Healthy Start: Pregnancy and Vaccines

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 12th, 2016|Preparedness|

As we continue our recognition of August as National Immunization Awareness Month, we want to take this week to remind pregnant women about the importance of immunizations to protect themselves and their babies. During pregnancy, you are often thinking about baby names, nursery colors, and prenatal vitamins, but you should also be thinking about vaccines. Vaccines [...]

Largest measles outbreak of the year… so far
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Largest measles outbreak of the year… so far

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Largest measles outbreak of the year… so far

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 9th, 2016|Preparedness|

For the past three months, state and local public health disease detectives have been working tirelessly to bring an end to the measles outbreak originating from a private detention facility in Eloy, Arizona. This week, the outbreak is officially closed. A total of 22 cases have been reported during this three month outbreak, all of [...]

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SunWise Program Helps Arizona Youth Beat the Summer Heat
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SunWise Program Helps Arizona Youth Beat the Summer Heat

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SunWise Program Helps Arizona Youth Beat the Summer Heat

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 8th, 2016|Preparedness|

Our SunWise Skin Cancer Prevention Program has been working all summer spreading the sun safety message throughout the community. In June and July we worked with the Parks and Recreation Departments with City of Phoenix and City of Glendale for their summer camps series. The SunWise Program visited several sites teaching day campers from ages [...]

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To Game or not to Game? The Dilemma of Zika and the Olympics
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To Game or not to Game? The Dilemma of Zika and the Olympics

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To Game or not to Game? The Dilemma of Zika and the Olympics

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 5th, 2016|Preparedness|

The 2016 Summer Olympics will soon take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a Zika-affected country. This has created a lot of discussion about the risk for travelers and their families. CDC and the WHO have both affirmed that travel to the Olympics is not any riskier than non-Olympic-related travel to Zika affected areas. The [...]

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