Preventing an Eviction Is Public Health
This week Maricopa County launched a new Eviction Prevention Pilot Program to mitigate evictions. Evictions are super easy in Arizona due to our Residential Landlord and Tenant Act which is highly tilted toward landlords and against tenants. It was passed in 1972 and hasn’t been changed much since. Updating Arizona’s Landlord-Tenant Act: A Crucial Step to Prevent Evictions and Save Lives – AZ Public Health Association Kudos to the Maricopa
Prop. 319 Slams the Door on an Evidence-Based Core Injury Prevention Tool
Prop 319 Debate on Arizona PBS KAET Thursday at 5 and 10pm Arizona voters will have several ballot propositions this fall. One that hasn’t gotten much attention yet is Proposition 319, the Legislature’s referral micromanaging photo enforcement of traffic laws including red light running cameras. It even slams the door on cities that might want to use red light running cameras and school zone speed cameras in the future. We
New CDC Report: Arizona Again Among the Worst States for Childhood Vaccination Rates
Reasons range from our unenforced loophole-ridden school vaccine law to gross over-regulation of Vaccines for Children providers during the Ducey/Christ/Herrington administration Each year the CDC compiles vaccination data reported by schools across the country, giving us a pretty good picture of how well protected kindergartners are against diseases like measles compared to other states. The new numbers came out this week, and you won’t be surprised to learn that the
Credit When Credit is Due
I spend plenty of time criticizing Kennedy’s public health decisions (including the piece above about last week’s vaccine executive order). But when his agencies do something good, I should recognize that. I found one. This week the FDA proposed closing a food labeling loophole. For the last few decades federal food labeling regulations let some food ingredients skip the normal food-additive approval process if they’re generally recognized by experts as
Public Health Journalism this Week
Vaccination rates in Arizona schools lowered – Arizona Horizon – AZPBS Are peptides the future of aging? What to know about the popular yet unregulated supplement fad | KJZZ Moderna Receives U.S. FDA Approval for Influenza Vaccine mFLUSIVA Arizona promised secure treatment for its sickest psychiatric patients in 2019. None exists. This study says a new medication is helping some Valley fever patients in Arizona Secure treatment out of reach
Solar Panels, Batteries & Better Patient Care: The Chiricahua Community Health Centers Trifecta
Good public policy, good business decisions and good public health. The Chiricahua Community Health Centers hit the policy trifecta of the last couple years. Chiricahua Community Health Centers just flipped the switch on four new solar and battery microgrids at its Douglas facilities… the result of several years of work by Chiricahua’s leadership to solve a very practical problem: The electricity goes out a lot in their part of the