Prevention

Topics here will include issues that fall into the Prevention Division of the agency, which include – as the name implies – programs that help prevent disease in our state. You will find information about chronic diseases (cancer, heart health, breathing disorders) as well as tobacco use prevention. This area also includes education about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Women, Infant and Children programs; both USDA programs that help provide nutrition to lower income residents.

Arizona publishes first report of concurrent mosquito-borne disease outbreaks

By |2017-02-10T09:49:03-07:00December 15th, 2015|Prevention|

ADHS Office of Infectious Disease Services published a report last week in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describing concurrent outbreaks of West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus disease in Arizona. These outbreaks occurred from May through October this year, and resulted in over 100 illnesses . Co-outbreaks of these two diseases [...]

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Dietetic Interns Gain Knowledge from ADHS Staff

By |2017-02-10T09:49:04-07:00December 14th, 2015|Prevention|

Nineteen Dietetic Interns from Arizona State University recently completed a public health nutrition rotation at the Arizona Department of Health Services. The two-week experience is part an internship which includes more than 1,200 hours of supervised practice required before taking the national exam to become a Registered Dietitian. The interns learned about a variety of [...]

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Follow the ABC’s of Safe Sleep to Keep your Newborn Safe

By |2017-02-10T09:49:04-07:00December 8th, 2015|Prevention|

Data from the latest Child Fatality Review shows that more than 82 children less than one year old died in an unsafe sleep environment in Arizona last year. That is a devastating loss to our community, which is why providing education about safe sleeping environments is one of our top priorities. We have been working on reducing [...]

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CDC Vital Signs – Hospital Support for Breastfeeding

By |2015-12-01T13:15:32-07:00November 30th, 2015|Prevention|

Hospital support for breastfeeding has improved since 2007, both across the nation and here in Arizona, according to a recent Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In terms of hospitals implementing more than six of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, Arizona has gone from less than one in five [...]

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Caregivers for People with Alzheimer’s Disease are Critical

By |2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 20th, 2015|Prevention|

There are rapidly expanding number of people with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias in Arizona, which challenges our health care and community-based service systems to develop innovative and effective ways to provide high-quality care and services. Currently more than 120,000 Arizonans age 65 and older have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, and an estimated 6,000 [...]

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Great American Smoke-Out is Thursday, November 19

By |2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 19th, 2015|Prevention|

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YEjjSkYyOI&feature=youtu.be The American Cancer Society marks the Great American Smoke Out on the third Thursday of November each year by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By quitting—even for one day—people who smoke will be taking an [...]

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21st Annual Four Corners Conference: Learning and Strategizing in Durango

By |2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 18th, 2015|Prevention|

For more than 20 years, public health advocates and clinical practitioners have been meeting in the Southwest to talk about what's new in TB and HIV.  Earlier this month, Arizona’s public health and clinical representatives joined our federal and four-corner-state counterparts in Durango, Colorado. At this 21st conference, presentations ran the gamut from TB case [...]

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New “Brighten the Family Table” Campaign Launches

By |2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 16th, 2015|Prevention|

The Arizona Nutrition Network in our Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity showcases a new campaign that encourages people to “Brighten the Family Table” with colorful vegetables and fruits. The campaign features a variety of healthy, colorful foods such as bright red peppers, colorful carrots, green vegetables like broccoli and leafy greens, pretty purple cabbage, [...]

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HIV Testing and Awareness Campaign Begins

By |2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 11th, 2015|Prevention|

Our HIV Prevention Program in the Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease launched Arizona's first statewide HIV prevention media campaign in late October. The media campaign uses the tagline “Its Only Dangerous When You Don’t Know It’s There” and is designed to positively promote and support HIV-related public health and safety. The campaign features people running [...]

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USDA’s SNAP-Ed Toolkit will feature the Empower Program

By |2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 6th, 2015|General, Prevention|

Arizona’s Empower Program has been selected for inclusion in the third revision of SNAP-Ed Strategies & Interventions: An Obesity Prevention Toolkit for States (Toolkit) that will be released in November 2015. The Toolkit review process was conducted in partnership with USDA and the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR). For the third revision of the Toolkit, more applications [...]

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