Protecting the health and wellbeing of our children is critical to the future of Arizona. September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Arizona ranks 15th in the nation in childhood obesity with almost 18% of Arizona children (10 to 17) being obese. Obesity puts our children at early risk for conditions we normally associate with [...]
Whooping Cough is making headlines again – with more than 18,000 cases in the U.S. and 600 cases so far this year in AZ. You might wonder why we continue to have lots of whooping cough cases in the US and AZ when the other vaccine preventable diseases are real rare (e.g. measles, mumps etc.). [...]
One of the things I’ve always been jazzed about is coming up with simple and easy policy interventions to drive public health change. The Governor signed a bill that’s a good example. SB1059 addresses liability concerns of schools when opening outdoor facilities to the public outside of the school day. This is a critical first [...]
We’ve got a groovy new Farmers' Market Locator up on our WIC website. It help anybody in Arizona find the closest farmers market. Simply go to the application link and put in any address and city and push “Find Market”. The program will list all the markets including links that give you the time of year, dates [...]
We’ve got a groovy new Farmers' Market Locator up on our WIC website. It help anybody in Arizona find the closest farmers market. Simply go to the application link and put in any address and city and push “Find Market”. The program will list all the markets including links that give you the time of year, dates [...]
