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.

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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When You’re Hot, You’re Hot

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:47-07:00May 13th, 2011|Behavioral Health, Preparedness, Prevention|

The Sonoran Desert will be among the hottest places on the globe for the next 4 months. The heat on the desert floor isn’t just a nuisance, it’s expensive & lethal. Do you know what to do to protect yourself and your family? Do you follow through? Year in and year out, nearly 1,400 Arizonans [...]

Healthy Athletes

By azdhs-admin|2011-05-12T08:47:00-07:00May 12th, 2011|Prevention|

Did you know that Special Olympics’ Healthy Athletes Program is the largest health care provider for people with intellectual disabilities in the world? Although “health” and “athletics” tend to be two topics that are believed to go hand in hand—that is not always the case, as Special Olympics leaders became aware of over the years. [...]

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Fairy Tale Conveys Anti-smoking Message to Kids

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:47-07:00May 11th, 2011|Preparedness, Prevention|

Guest blog by: Karen Lewis, M.D., Medical Director of the Immunization Program Office of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Tobacco use is the world's leading single preventable cause of death. Every year, tobacco-related illnesses cause about 500,000 deaths in the United States. Children start smoking early. Every year, there are about 400,000 new daily [...]

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