Prevention – Page 74 – AZ Dept. of Health Services News

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.

CDC Releases Road Safety Tool

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00June 3rd, 2011|Prevention|

Arizona has been able to decrease the rate of deaths from car, truck and motorcycle crashes by 43% in the last 4 years, from about 19 deaths per 100,000 in 2005 to 11 per 100,000 Arizonans in 2009. While this is good progress, we still have a long way to go. Crashes are still the [...]

MyPlate Kickoff

By azdhs-admin|2011-06-02T13:13:14-07:00June 2nd, 2011|Prevention|

The USDA kicked off their (well-researched) approach to help folks better understand how to make better and healthier food choices. The new approach- called MyPlate presents a new way to look at what you eat- and replaces the 2 decade old “food pyramid”. The MyPlate approach will become the new curriculum moving forward for schools [...]

Comments Off

Cell phones and cancer

By azdhs-admin|2011-06-01T10:22:27-07:00June 1st, 2011|Prevention|

The World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer met this week in Lyon, France to analyze health-risk data regarding the electromagnetic fields generated by cell phones. Their initial report was published this week, concluding that the chronic use of cell phones could be “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. The group didn’t do any primary [...]

Arizonans are Kicking the Habit / World No Tobacco Day

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00May 31st, 2011|Prevention|

Over 166,000 Arizonans kicked their tobacco habit in 2010. Our smoking rate now stands at only 13.5%. This news is exciting when you consider that many states have seen increases in tobacco use over the last couple of years. This brand-new data isn’t published yet, but our team thinks that this will put is neck-and-neck [...]

Comments Off

Limit the Sun, Not the Fun

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00May 27th, 2011|Preparedness, Prevention|

Today is Don't Fry Day - a day established by the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention to remind people of the importance of sunscreen. In Arizona, we need more than a day - it is more of a season and now that school’s just about out (or is), kids have more time on their [...]

Comments Off

Celebrating Women’s Health

By azdhs-admin|2011-05-26T08:35:26-07:00May 26th, 2011|General, Prevention|

With all the things that have been going on I somehow neglected to write about Women’s Health Week - which was a couple of weeks ago. The theme this year is “It’s Your Time” and serves to remind women to take time out to take care of themselves. Women in all parts of the world [...]

Comments Off

Who is John Snow?

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00May 25th, 2011|General, Prevention|

He’s a guy that’s often thought of as the founder of modern day epidemiology because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in England in the mid 1800s. At the time, scientists and the public believed that diseases like cholera were spread by “miasma”- basically that diseases like cholera were spread [...]

Comments Off

ADHS to Win Copper Quills

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00May 18th, 2011|Prevention|

Our Tobacco and Chronic Disease program will win 4 of the coveted International Association of Business Communicators Phoenix Copper Quill Awards this week. The awards are given annually to outstanding marketing and communications efforts, as judged by communications professionals around the US and Internationally. This year we’ll be getting awards for: Our Venomocity website and social media [...]

Comments Off

Who Is Ed Jenner?

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00May 17th, 2011|Preparedness, Prevention|

He’s a guy that may have saved more lives than any other single person in history. In the 1790's, he noticed that “milkmaids” seldom came down with smallpox. He developed a theory that the blisters which “milkmaids” commonly had as part of their work (from a disease called cowpox) somehow protected them from smallpox. In [...]

Comments Off

AZ “Putting Prevention to Work”

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:47-07:00May 16th, 2011|Prevention|

Last year we received funding from CDC to implement the Communities Putting Prevention to Work, which aims to achieve broad reaching, highly impactful, and sustainable change to reduce chronic disease burden associated with obesity and tobacco. This week CDC notified us that Arizona is a “high performing” state. What does this mean? CDC will soon be [...]

Comments Off

Previous 737475 Next