Community Health Workers

Are You a Primary Care Provider Looking for a Way to Help Your Patients Better Manage Chronic Diseases?

Referring them to a Community Health Worker Might Just be the Ticket Community Health Workers are frontline public health workers who have a trusted relationship with the community and help access to a variety of services and resources for community members. CHWs facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery, including the coordination of services to improve medical and behavioral health outcomes. Building CHWs

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Disease Control

What Happens if Measles Gets into Arizona Schools or Childcare?

Coconino County identified one confirmed case of measles last week and an additional probable case. That follows a couple of cases that Maricopa County identified. So far there hasn’t been any leakage of the virus into Arizona schools. If that were to happen, especially in the parts of the state with really bad childhood immunization rates or in some of the charter schools (which have among the worst immunization coverage

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Family Planning

AZPHA Breakfast & Learn – Social & Reproductive Justice: Advancing Reproductive Justice through Advocacy

Friday, March 22, 2024: 9-10am Multiple social conditions interfere with people’s right not to have children but also to have children and raise them with dignity in safe, healthy, and supportive environments. Webinar attendees will explore the major tenets of reproductive justice and how to apply the framework to advance their reproductive health and rights advocacy. Our Speaker: DeShawn Taylor, MD CEO of Desert Star Institute for Family Planning Author: Undue Burden:

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Social Determinants

Hobbs to Use COVID Funds to Cancel Some Medical Debt as a Public Health Intervention

Governor Hobbs announced that she’s using $30M in COVID relief funds to purchase the medical debt of some Arizonans who earn less than 400% of the Federal Poverty Line or who owe more than 5% of their annual income to medical debt. AZ Gov. Hobbs to erase medical debt for 1M using COVID relief funds The state is contracting with RIP Medical Debt (a nonprofit) to identify and buy debt held

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Nutrition

WIC Could Be Decimated by HCR2060

It’s no secret that the House & Senate majority are frustrated that Governor Hobbs has been vetoing some of their priority bills. As an end-around, they’re increasingly turning to things called ‘SCR’s and HCR’s’ – Resolutions that, if passed via each chamber, place the bill directly on the ballot during the next general election (the state constitution doesn’t allow the Governor to veto those Resolutions). Last legislative session saw 4

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Early Childhood

Federal Funding for WIC & SNAP Saved at the Bell

WIC to Get a 16% Funding Increase Congress needed to approve funding legislation by Friday to protect two critical public health programs – the Women Infant and Children program (WIC) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – aka food stamps (SNAP). They did so with just a few hours to spare before those two critical public health programs would have had a funding cliff. Public health DC insiders expected it

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