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Introducing Health-e-Arizona Plus

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:58-07:00December 6th, 2013|General|

AHCCCS and ADES have rolled out a new website that makes it easier than ever to enroll for Medicaid and other benefits. It’s called Health-e-Arizona Plus… and it’s Arizona’s one-stop-shop for easy Medicaid enrollment. Health-e-Arizona Plus provides an easy pathway to apply for a full range of AHCCCS and ADES benefits and local health access programs like the Supplemental [...]

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Typhoon Haiyan & Public Health

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 29th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General, Preparedness, Prevention|

Like conflict and wars, typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) destroyed basic services for food, water, health care and shelter in the Central Philippines. This disaster was declared a “Level 3” Emergency by the UN, meaning there’s substantial impact on the health of people and it can’t be managed by a country or region alone. The [...]

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Thanks for the Food

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 29th, 2013|General|

Thanks to all of you that made this year’s food drive a success again. We started off a little slow this year, but donations really picked up this week and we ended up collecting more than 1,000 Kg of food… with almost half coming in this week. We haven’t broken out the finals for [...]

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Excellent “Public Health 101” PowerPoint

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 27th, 2013|General|

One of the objectives in our Strategic Map is Building Awareness of Public Health Value. One of the ways we can do that is to educate community groups, students and other Stakeholders about the return on investment that public health provides and how the system works. Lucky for us the CDC recently published a PowerPoint [...]

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Chronic Disease Calculator E-tool.

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 25th, 2013|General|

The CDC just developed a great new Cost Calculator that provides state-level annual medical expenditure and absenteeism estimates for 10 chronic conditions. The tool provides medical expenditures for all of AZ for all payers as well as specific payers Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurers. The 10 chronic conditions are arthritis; asthma; cancer; cardiovascular diseases (congestive [...]

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Healthy Thanksgiving

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 25th, 2013|General|

Whether you’re hosting a Thanksgiving celebration or attending as a guest, you can help make the healthy choice the easy choice for your friends and family. Consider making a healthier version of an old favorite to share. This recipe for Corn Bread Crusted Turkey would go great served with this slightly modified recipe for a [...]

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Empowering the El Congreso Internacional de Promoción de la Salud

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 19th, 2013|General|

I was fortunate to attend the 2nd annual “El Congreso Internacional de Promoción de la Salud (CIPS)” last week in Hermosillo. There were more than 400 public health attendees from 17 countries at the conference. I presented our pre-school Empower program…. which empowers kids to make good choices about nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco using age-appropriate vehicles including costumed characters and a coloring book. [...]

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Newborn Screening Rulemaking

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:00-07:00November 16th, 2013|General, Newborn Screening|

Our Newborn Screening Program ensures that each newborn is tested for 28 inherited disorders and hearing problems. The goal is to help kids avoid illness, developmental delays and even death by quickly identifying problems and swiftly letting their doctors know so they can implement interventions. On any given day our newborn screening team tests from [...]

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Collaborating Across the Pacific

By Will Humble|2013-11-16T10:06:16-07:00November 16th, 2013|General|

You may have noticed some new faces around the ADHS the past few months as we have been hosting visiting Professors from Korea, Japan, and this coming year from Singapore. The two Professors who are currently working with us are Dr. Sungwoo Moon from Korea University and Dr. Taro Irisawa from Osaka University in Japan. They’re Emergency Physicians [...]

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AZ Food Safety Report

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:00-07:00November 16th, 2013|General|

Our core environmental health responsibilities include administering the statewide public health sanitation program for food safety, bottled water, hotels and motels, children’s camps, public schools, and public and semi-public swimming pools. We delegate most of the actual inspection work to the county health departments. We finished our 2012 statewide Annual Report last week. Last fiscal year [...]

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