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New Certification for Kids Emergency Care

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:33-07:00September 27th, 2011|General, Preparedness|

A trip to the emergency room with a sick or injured child is one of a parent’s worst nightmares, but it’s not uncommon. Last year in Arizona there were just over 400,000 emergency department visits by children ages 0–14. Not all hospital emergency rooms are equally equipped to provide care specific to children. Arizona is [...]

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Closin’ the Deal

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:33-07:00September 23rd, 2011|General|

Just a few hours ago we learned that we closed the deal on the highly competitive portion of a new home visiting grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services. We're one of 9 states that'll be awarded the competitive portion of the grant. We'll receive $9.4M a year for four years for a total of more than $36M to implement a maternal, infant, [...]

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Let’s Celebrate Wellness this Week!

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:33-07:00September 22nd, 2011|General|

Guest blog by: From the Division of Behavioral Health Services Let’s Celebrate Wellness this Week! You are invited to join Arizonans this FRIDAY, September 23 to participate in the Line Dance for Wellness and Recovery which will be held at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza (next to the Capitol Lawn in Phoenix) and at DeMeester [...]

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Is Marijuana Medicine? Information for Doctors

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 20th, 2011|General|

Next month, the U of A College of Medicine Phoenix is going to host a lecture about marijuana and whether it is medicine. Dr. Sue Sisley, St. Joseph’s Hospital, will be giving the presentation at the Phoenix Theatre on October 11th at 5:30. In an earlier blog, Dr. Laura Nelson, ADHS’s Chief Medical Officer, and [...]

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Own Your Own Health Data

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 20th, 2011|General|

For years, you’ve heard that you should take your health care into your own hands. It may soon be easier because HHS wants you to be able to access your electronic health care records. One key argument to give people access is if they know what is there, they’ll ask better questions or even make notes [...]

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AZ’s New Pandemic Readiness Plan

By azdhs-admin|2011-09-16T08:19:00-07:00September 16th, 2011|General, Preparedness, Prevention|

Remember our responses to the 2009-2010 H1N1 Pandemic? One of the reasons why Arizona’s public health responses were so effective was that we had a well researched and tested pandemic readiness plan. But... public health readiness isn’t a static process, and once the pandemic was finished we set out to revise our plan with lessons learned. Over [...]

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Healthy Homes

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 14th, 2011|General, Prevention|

For decades, removing lead (Pb) from the environment has been a public health priority because residual contamination from decades of using products containing harmful lead continued to cause health problems. Fortunately, the public health interventions (removing Pb from gas, paint, and cans) worked and today 99.9% of Arizona kids have blood lead levels below the standard. As [...]

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Behavioral Health Kicking the Habit

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 13th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

For the past 16 months, our folks in the Division of Behavioral health and our Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease and ASHline have been working to train clinical behavioral health staff in Maricopa and Pima Counties on how to get folks into smoking cessation (quit) services. The overall goal of this collaboration was to establish [...]

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Own your Own Health Data

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 12th, 2011|General|

For years, you’ve heard that you should take your health care into your own hands It may soon be easier – the federal Health and Human Services Secretary wants you to be able to access your electronic health care records. One key argument to give people access is if they know what is there, they [...]

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Contagion

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:35-07:00September 9th, 2011|General, Preparedness, Prevention|

In all my years in public health this is the first crack I’ve taken at being a movie critic- so give me a little slack on this one. I checked out the new movie called Contagion- and really liked it. I won’t give up too much information and spoil the film, but it’s basically a fictional [...]

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