prenatal physcial activity

AZ “Putting Prevention to Work”

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:47-07:00May 16th, 2011|Prevention|

Last year we received funding from CDC to implement the Communities Putting Prevention to Work, which aims to achieve broad reaching, highly impactful, and sustainable change to reduce chronic disease burden associated with obesity and tobacco. This week CDC notified us that Arizona is a “high performing” state. What does this mean? CDC will soon be [...]

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Ensuring Healthy Birth Outcomes

By azdhs-admin|2011-01-14T15:49:54-07:00January 14th, 2011|Prevention|

What’s the most important thing we can do to ensure a good birth outcome? During the 1980s and 1990s, public health focused on the importance of prenatal care and ensuring that every woman got into prenatal care early in the pregnancy and continued with consistent care throughout the pregnancy. Programs like Health Start enlisted lay [...]