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.

Community Profiles Dashboards (Part IV of IV)

By |2017-02-10T09:49:23-07:00November 26th, 2014|Prevention|

I’ve been blogging about our Community Profiles Dashboards over the last few weeks.  They’re a powerful new tool for public health professionals, city planners, non-profit organizations, and medical providers, and anyone interested in heath data.  We’ve showcased several of the functions of the Dashboards and how they can help visualize and analyze health data.  The [...]

Take the Title V Needs Assessment Survey

By |2017-02-10T09:49:23-07:00November 25th, 2014|General, Prevention|

Our Women’s and Children’s Health Team is working on the 5-year Needs Assessment for the Maternal and Child Health Title V Block Grant.  The needs assessment helps us tailor how we spend the federal funding to improve the health and well-being of Arizona’s women, children, and adolescents. You can help narrow down the 10 health [...]

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Annual March of Dimes Report Card

By |2017-02-10T09:49:25-07:00November 19th, 2014|Prevention|

Every year the March of Dimes reviews where we are as a nation in reducing premature birth.  Being born too early can impact a child’s ability to live a healthy life.  It is one of the leading causes of infant death.  Arizona has been improving the preterm birth rate for the past 7 years.  In [...]

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AZ Health Aging Plan

By |2017-02-10T09:49:25-07:00November 18th, 2014|General, Prevention|

Arizona is experiencing a record shift in the number of older adults.  By 2050, the number of Arizonans age 65 and older is expected to increase 174%, which represents 2,422,186 people.  Also, the current trend of longevity among aging adults represents both opportunities and challenges in the years ahead.  Older adults are living longer; however, [...]

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Lifecycle of a Disease Report

By |2017-02-10T09:49:25-07:00November 17th, 2014|Prevention|

Ever wonder what happens to your info when you go to the doctor?  If you have one of the 90+ reportable conditions in Arizona, your case report travels from your healthcare provider’s office to your local, state, or tribal health departments, and for some diseases it’s de-identified and sent all the way to the CDC. [...]

Local Transmission of Dengue in Sonora

By |2017-02-10T09:49:26-07:00November 12th, 2014|Prevention|

During the World Cup, I wrote about dengue, since it’s endemic in Brazil.  Every year, we get a handful of dengue cases reported in Arizona (4 last year) that are associated with travel to a country with dengue circulation, but for the first time, dengue is at our border.  Over the last few weeks, locally transmitted [...]

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2013 March of Dimes Report Card Released

By |2017-02-10T09:49:26-07:00November 6th, 2014|Prevention|

Every year the March of Dimes reviews where we are as a nation in reducing premature birth.  Being born too early can impact a child’s ability to live a healthy life. It is one of the leading causes of infant death.   Arizona has been improving the preterm birth rate for the past 7 years.  In [...]

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Community Profiles Dashboards (Part III of IV)

By |2017-02-10T09:49:26-07:00November 4th, 2014|Prevention|

Our Community Profiles Dashboard is a powerful new tool public health professionals, city planners, non-profit organizations, medical providers and anyone interested in health data.  In Part I of the series we covered the Dashboards and the Primary Care Areas.  The second blog and video demo explored suicide data and how you can compare rural and [...]

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Post-Arrival Monitoring Underway

By |2017-02-10T09:49:27-07:00October 31st, 2014|Prevention|

This week the CDC began providing us with a daily listing of people arriving in Arizona from Ebola affected countries.  This is valuable information because it allows us to more quickly and easily identify suspect cases of Ebola right away-before community exposures occur.  This week we received information about a handful of low-risk people that are [...]

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Halloween Safety

By |2017-02-10T09:49:27-07:00October 30th, 2014|Prevention|

As we make our way home from work and school tomorrow, neighborhoods will be filled with goblins, ghosts and superheroes.  It’s a night kids look forward to all year, so we need to do our part to make sure Arizona kids have a safe Halloween. The most important thing you can do to keep kids [...]

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