Prevention – Page 82 – 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.

Arizona Breaking Through the National Smoking Trend

By Will Humble|2010-09-10T11:19:40-07:00September 10th, 2010|Prevention|

A new report from the CDC this week showed that the smoking rate across the US has stayed flat at about 20% over the last 5 years. Not so in Arizona, where we’ve decreased from 20% in 2005 to 16% in 2009, according to our latest BRFS report. As is the case across the country, [...]

Nourishing Arizona’s “Food Deserts”

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:09-07:00September 8th, 2010|Prevention|

One of the ways ADHS can help eliminate Arizona’s food deserts is to try to get our vendors (the businesses that accept WIC coupons) to broaden their food inventories with healthier foods. The ADHS Program Integrity Team works to get this done. The Team actively reaches out to the vendor communities (grocery stores and other [...]

ADHS Wins National Award for Cardiac Receiving Center Program

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:09-07:00September 7th, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

Our Bureau of EMS received 1st Place in this year’s 2010 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials “Vision Award” for our creative (and really inexpensive) Arizona Cardiac Receiving Center Program. The annual ASTHO Vision Awards recognize outstanding state health department programs and initiatives that use a creative approach to address public health needs or [...]

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AZ a National Runner-up for Nutrition Pilot

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:10-07:00September 1st, 2010|Prevention|

An Arizona team from ADHS and ADES put together a great application for the new USDA pilot program called the Healthy Incentives Pilot, which provides incentives to encourage low-income folks to eat more fruits and vegetables. Massachusetts came in first and got the grant, but our applications came in second. The pilot program would have [...]

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ADHS Scores New Heat Illness Prevention Grant

By Will Humble|2010-09-01T08:51:53-07:00September 1st, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

The scorching summer of 2005 motivated us to get our act together and do a better job preventing heat related illnesses in Arizona. That summer, we completed a needs assessment and developed a Heat Emergency Response Plan and Heat Brochure that identifies interventions using triggers from the National Weather Service. These days, we identify risk [...]

Check out Arizona’s 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Survey

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:11-07:00August 31st, 2010|Behavioral Health, Preparedness, Prevention|

Decades ago, how long you lived depended mostly on fate. Infectious diseases, poor sanitation and unsafe conditions called the shots. However, because of advances in public health, much of the fate part is gone and the risk factors for premature death are dominated by behavioral and lifestyle choices. Of course, income and access to resources [...]

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Folic Acid Outreach

By Will Humble|2010-08-30T20:40:10-07:00August 30th, 2010|Prevention|

Each year in the U.S., 2,500 babies are born with neural tube defects (NTDs). These include such conditions as spina bifida and anencephaly, which can lead to paralysis or even early childhood death. Many of these birth defects can be avoided by simply remembering to take a multivitamin every day. A daily dose of 400 [...]

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How Do You Take Your Eggs?

By Will Humble|2010-08-27T16:41:44-07:00August 27th, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

Cooked all the way through, I hope. I’m certain that you heard about the national egg recall this month. I’ll try to put it in perspective. Epidemiologists across the country and at the CDC found a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella that has made a few hundred people sick. The investigation found that people that ate [...]

Seasonal Flu News

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:12-07:00August 9th, 2010|Prevention|

The FDA approved this year’s (2010-2011) flu vaccine for the US. This year's shot will protect folks from 3 strains of influenza including the pandemic strain from last year. The technical terms for the strains in this year’s shot are the “A/California/7/09 (H1N1)-like virus (i.e. pandemic virus”; the “A/Perth /16/2009 (H3N2)-like virus”; and the “B/Brisbane/60/2008-like [...]

West Nile Ramping Up

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:13-07:00July 27th, 2010|Prevention|

The West Nile virus is making its annual visit to Arizona. We’ve had several cases now in Arizona (and 1 death) - mostly from the East Valley in Maricopa and Pinal Counties. Most of these cases have the more severe form of West Nile virus which causes meningitis or encephalitis. We rarely hear of most cases because [...]

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