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05/5 2011
Sitting is Killing You
Literally. It’s shaving years off of your life. Those are the American Cancer Society’s and Dr. James Levine’s conclusions after five years of rigorous study. And they’re not alone. An Australian study cited in this article concluded that “for each additional hour of television a person sat and watched per day, the risk of dying [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
CEO Search Underway
Roger Hughes, SLHI’s founding CEO, is retiring at the end of 2011 after 16 years of service. A search for his successor is now actively underway. m/Oppenheim Associates, a national leadership search firm specializing in nonprofits, has been retained to conduct the search. A position description is available on their website. All inquiries should be [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Strawberry Splash Fruit Gushers
Have only a trivial amount of strawberries from concentrate but contain highly processed ingredients never before present in the food supply, including seven variants of sugar and partially hydrogenated fat, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is merely one example of an “ultraprocessed” food product. The amount of [...] Learn More →
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03/14 2011
A Bad Bill
Arizona legislators who want to require hospitals to confirm citizenship status of patients without proof of insurance (SB 1405) might want to consider results from the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which required most Medicaid applicants to furnish proof of citizenship at the time of application or renewal. One analysis summarized in a 2008 report [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
Better News on Kids and Fast Food
But wait! Amid Arizona ranking at the bottom of states on child health indicators comes encouraging news: Young children in the state are eating less fast food than they were two years ago, according to data from the 2010 Arizona Health Survey (AHS) conducted by SLHI. The number of children younger than six years of [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
Hunger in Arizona
According to Hunger in America 2010, 888,100 unduplicated Arizonans received emergency food in 2009. That’s a whopping 85% increase from 2006. Almost half – 46% – were children under the age of 18. This dramatic increase underscores the importance of funding and sustaining a food safety net. But it also underscores the fundamental economic imperative [...] Learn More →
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01/13 2011
Money and Education
Are often the critical variables when it comes to support for children and families. In a new report drawn from 2010 Arizona Health Survey (AHS) data, Young Children of South Phoenix, researchers noted some of the differences between the predominately Hispanic population (62.3%) in a 12-zip code area of South Phoenix and the rest of [...] Learn More →
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01/13 2011
Diabetes Warcraft
In the future we will all be “gamers,” according to those who predict the eventual dominance of cloud computing – Internet-based computing where shared resources, software and information are provided to electronic devices on-demand, like electricity – in our lives. Gaming is the “killer app” of cloud computing, and gamers are salivating over delivering all [...] Learn More →
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01/12 2011
Cohort Capacity Building
In a recent blog, a professional in a national management consulting firm that works with nonprofits, foundations and other groups waxed positive about attending a recent event and “learning from four really smart and experienced people” about the virtues of “cohort capacity building” – “working toward a shared goal with a group of nonprofits that [...] Learn More →
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12/15 2010
Substance Abuse in Arizona
A new SLHI report, Adult Substance Use in Arizona 2010, includes some findings using data from the 2010 Arizona Health Survey (AHS) that may seem contrary to popular notions of who is using and possibly abusing alcohol, prescription drugs and illicit drugs. According to the report: People with higher incomes were more likely to begin [...] Learn More →
