Prevention – Page 80 – 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.

Kids and tobacco

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:01-07:00December 5th, 2010|Prevention|

The Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease sponsored their 2010 Youth Première Event to mobilize Arizona youth in the battle against tobacco. This event marked the first time youth from around the State were brought together to learn about establishing a comprehensive and sustainable statewide youth coalition on issues related to tobacco control and addiction. [...]

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Preconception Health II

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:02-07:00December 2nd, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

If you picked up a U.S. Vital Statistics edition in say 1940, you’d notice an emphasis on stillbirth statistics in the maternal and child health sections. Today while infant mortality (rather than stillbirths) receives more attention as a sentinel indicator of maternal and child health, it’s still significant. You may recall reading in a previous [...]

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Action Plan for Integrating Acute & Behavioral Health Care

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:02-07:00November 18th, 2010|Behavioral Health, Prevention|

Arizona citizens with a serious mental illness have a life expectancy that’s 30 years less than the general population. These folks don’t die early because of their mental illness; rather, they die from preventable physical health conditions like obesity, smoking, lung disease, stroke and heart disease. That’s why the Department is partnering with the Milbank [...]

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ADES Offices Win National Nutrition Medals

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:02-07:00November 17th, 2010|Prevention|

Two ADES offices in Maricopa County were awarded Bronze Medals for the prestigious 2010 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Hunger Champion Award. The East Southern Office in Phoenix, and the Gilbert Office on W. Guadalupe both received the Bronze Award, and were chosen from DES offices all over the U.S. The USDA only gave out 23 [...]

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Check Out Our New Empower Training Videos

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:03-07:00November 15th, 2010|Licensing, Prevention|

Our collaborative team of professionals from WIC, Maternal & Child Health, the Office of Children with Special Healthcare Needs and our Office of Childcare Licensure just finished and posted 4 dynamite videos to help our AZ Childcare Centers and Homes to adopt our Empower Pack wellness program. The videos range from about 7 to 9 [...]

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AZ’s Improving Our Birth Outcomes

By azdhs-admin|2010-11-01T08:42:02-07:00November 1st, 2010|Prevention|

Did you know that Arizona achieved an historic low Infant Mortality Rate (5.9 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births) in 2009? Infant mortality has long been a public health barometer to assess the general health of a community because good birth outcomes require a host of things to go right. There are many risk [...]

Heart Disease v. Cancer in AZ

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:04-07:00October 25th, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

As predicted by our 1990 ADHS Vital Statistics Bureau in 1990- cancer is now the number one killer in Arizona – surpassing heart disease. Does this mean that cancer is getting worse? Probably not- it really says that because of better management, treatment, and prevention of heart disease- people with heart conditions are living longer. [...]

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Teen Pregnancy Interventions

By azdhs-admin|2012-09-14T13:35:24-07:00October 19th, 2010|Prevention|

Preventing teen pregnancies could save Arizona more than $180M/year. Teen mothers face higher rates of preterm birth, and their kids have higher rates of low birth weight and infant death. Compared to women who delay childbearing until the age of 20 to 21 years, teenage moms are more likely to drop out of high school and to [...]

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Cimex lectularius & You (aka Bed Bugs & You)

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:04-07:00October 14th, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) haven’t really been a problem in AZ for the last few decades. Sure, we’ve had reports of bed bug infestations, but they’ve mostly been limited to areas around the Grand Canyon where lots of international travelers come and go toting their sleeping bags. After all, bed bugs are basically hitch-hikers, so [...]

More support for nutrition in the food stamp program

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:52:05-07:00October 7th, 2010|General, Prevention|

NYC is climbing on the SNAP better nutrition train today; it is asking the feds to forbid people from buying sugary drinks with food stamps. This should sound pretty familiar to my blog readers. I’ve been banging on this drum for months – we need to add nutritional standards to the criteria for folks who [...]

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