Workin’ Out
Student participation in PE and sports has lots of benefits like improved social skills, confidence, general health, well-being and healthier weight. According to the CDC rates for obesity among students with disabilities are 38% higher than for students without disabilities. Students who have intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities and mobility limitations have the highest obesity rates. Ensuring that students with disabilities [...]
ADHS to Become a HEART Safe Workplace
Our SHARE program recognizes HEART Safe workplaces around Arizona. The HEART Safe designation is awarded to schools, places of worship, non-profit agencies and businesses. It’s not easy to earn the status – it requires implementation of policies and procedures, training staff in how to use a defibrillator and they need to be registered, serviced and maintained. We haven’t recognized ourselves [...]
Next Midwifery Meeting
Our next Midwifery Scope of Practice Advisory Committee meeting will be Monday (February 11th) from 5-8 pm in the Lab conference room. The expanded Agenda will have more time for presentations and comments. We’ll have presentations from some of the advisory committee members, a discussion of the latest iteration of the working draft regulations and more time for the public to [...]
Mealtime
Does when you eat make a difference in how much you weigh? A new study in the International Journal of Obesity indicates eating late may make it less likely you will lose weight as quickly. The five-month study was done in Spain and included 420 people in a weight loss program using the Mediterranean Diet. People in the study were [...]
AZ’s Traumatic Brain Injury Network Developing
Traumatic brain injury is involved in about 1/3 of all injury-related deaths- it’s clearly a public health issue. That’s why we created Arizona's Excellence in Pre-hospital Injury Care project- which is aimed at improving brain injury outcomes in AZ. The National Institutes of Health chose AZ as the only state to evaluate the national standards for pre-hospital emergency care of [...]
Empowering Opportunity
The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council just released a grant opportunity for folks that would like to get info out to folks with developmental disabilities, their families, caregivers, professionals empowering persons with developmental disabilities and their families. The goal is to provide easy to understand and practical information out that promotes informed decision making when making choices and seeking the [...]