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Vack, Carol, Janet Mullen, and Pragathi Tummala. "Arizona Department of Health Services." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 20, no. 1 (2014): 82–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/phh.0b013e3182a0b874.
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Perin, Jodi. "Participatory Community Mapping in a Family Literacy Program." Practicing Anthropology 29, no. 4 (September 1, 2007): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.29.4.u032u3p2p106033x.
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In this article, I describe and reflect on the lessons learned from developing and implementing an outreach project focusing on science education and participatory mapping with adult education students, primarily immigrants from northern Mexico. As a graduate student at the University of Arizona's Department of Anthropology, with support from a NASA Space Grant Fellowship, I developed and implemented this project between August 2004 and August 2006 in southern Arizona. Due to the demographics of this area, the majority of the students with whom I worked were immigrants from the Mexican state of Sonora, which borders Arizona (see Figure 1 below).
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Harber, Philip, Jennifer Ha, and Matthew Roach. "Arizona Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Database." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 59, no. 4 (April 2017): 417–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jom.0000000000000971.
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Brady, Benjamin R., Bianca SantaMaria, Kathryn Tucker Ortiz y Pino, and Bridget S. Murphy. "Opioid stewardship program implementation in rural and critical access hospitals in Arizona." Journal of Opioid Management 20, no. 1 (February 8, 2024): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/jom.0842.
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Objective: The objective of this study is to examine rural hospitals' status in implementing opioid stewardship program (OSP) elements and assess differences in implementation in emergency department (ED) and acute inpatient departments.
Design: Health administrator survey to identify the number and type of OSP elements that each hospital has implemented.
Setting: Arizona critical access hospitals (CAHs).
Participants: ED and acute inpatient department heads at 17 Arizona CAHs (total of 34 assessments).
Main outcome measures: Implementation of 11 OSP elements, by department (ED vs inpatient) and prevention orientation (primary vs tertiary).
Results: The percentage of implemented elements ranged from 35 to 94 percent in EDs and 24 to 88 percent in acute care departments. Reviewing the prescription drug monitoring program database and offering alternatives to opioids were the most frequently implemented. Assessing opioid use disorder (OUD) and prescribing naloxone were among the least. The number of implemented elements tended to be uniform across departments. We found that CAHs implemented, on average, 67 percent of elements that prevent unnecessary opioid use and 54 percent of elements that treat OUD.
Conclusions: Some OSP elements were in place in nearly every Arizona CAH, while others were present in only a quarter or a third of hospitals. To improve, more attention is needed to define and standardize OSPs. Equal priority should be given to preventing unnecessary opioid initiation and treating opioid misuse or OUD, as well as quality control strategies that provide an opportunity for continuous improvement.
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Carey, Jason, and John Semmens. "Measurement Tools for Assessing Motor Vehicle Division Port-of-Entry Performance." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1906, no. 1 (January 2005): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105190600115.
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The Arizona Department of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Enforcement Services (MVES) conducts interstate commercial vehicle operations and enforcement activities at fixed ports of entry (POEs) along Arizona's interstate and international borders. These POE facilities play an important role in commercial vehicle safety and revenue collection by screening commercial vehicle traffic for compliance with state and federal regulations. POEs provide needed services but lack a clear means of evaluating services relative to the efficiency and effectiveness of enforcement activities. This inability makes it difficult to communicate POEs achievements and identify potential improvements in service quality. Measuring efficiency and effectiveness can help to direct resources for performing MVES functions. To ensure that public funds invested in the Arizona POE program provide a return to taxpayers in the form of increased safety and reduced damage to highways, several measures of performance at MVES commercial ports are proposed. Arizona POEs are used as a case study to evaluate various ways to measure performance.
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Hawthorne, S. "AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES FOUND IN ARIZONA." Pediatrics 94, no. 1 (July 1, 1994): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.94.1.117.
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Washington, DC, July 13, 1993—Africanized honey bees have been found in Arizona, the second state where the "killer bees" have migrated into this country, according to the Agriculture Department. A swarm was found in a state Department of Agriculture trap 2 miles north of Sasabe, AZ. The bees were destroyed. The fierce and unmanageable bees are descendants of honey bees imported from Africa to Brazil in 1956. They have been spreading north and south from Brazil since their release in 1957. They tend to sting with less provocation and in greater numbers than other honey bees. They migrated for the first time into the United States in 1990, near Hildago, TX, in the Rio Grande Valley. They have also entered the country on ships.
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Hay, Victoria. "To Boldly Go…: Launching a Campus Literary Magazine on the Internet." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 31, no. 1 (September 1, 2003): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/tetyc20032985.
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Villarroel, Lisa, Aram S. Mardian, Cara Christ, and Shakaib Rehman. "Redefining Pain and Addiction: Creation of a Statewide Curriculum." Public Health Reports 135, no. 6 (September 22, 2020): 756–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033354920954505.
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Objectives In response to a declared statewide public health emergency due to opioid-related overdose deaths, the Arizona Department of Health Services guided the creation of a modern, statewide, evidence-based curriculum on pain and addiction that would be relevant for all health care provider types. Methods The Arizona Department of Health Services convened and facilitated 4 meetings during 4 months with a workgroup comprising the deans and curriculum representatives of all 18 medical, osteopathic, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, dental, podiatry, and naturopathic programs in Arizona. During this collaborative and iterative process, the workgroup reviewed existing curricula, established a philosophical framework, and developed a flexible and practical structure for a curriculum that would suit the needs of all program types. Results The Arizona Pain and Addiction Curriculum was finalized in June 2018. The curriculum aims to redefine pain and addiction as multidimensional public health issues and is structured as 10 core components, each supported by a detailed set of evidence-based objectives. The curriculum includes a set of annual metrics to collect from both programs (focused on implementation progress and barriers) and learners (focused on knowledge, attitudes, and practice plans). Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first example of a statewide collaboration among diverse health professional education programs to create a single, standard curriculum. This collaborative process and the nonproprietary Arizona Pain and Addiction Curriculum may serve as a useful template for other states to enhance pain and addiction education.
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Martinez, David G., Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, and Victor H. Begay. "Understanding Navajo K–12 Public School Finance in Arizona through Tribal Critical Theory." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 121, no. 5 (May 2019): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811912100506.
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Background/Context Currently, Native American education policy reports and empirical research papers have largely focused on sociocultural challenges to Native sovereignty and the policy that impedes Native sovereign states. This paper deviates from that theme by implicating policy as preventing improvement of educational outcomes by proxy of the fiscal revenue available to reservation schools, focusing specifically on the Navajo Nation. To date, this is the first empirically driven, Native-specific school finance study that attempts to compare how Anglo and Native schools are funded and how the quality and dispersion of this funding affects Native education and outcomes. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This study reports on a longitudinal descriptive analysis of school fiscal revenue (2006–2012), comparing Navajo K–12 school districts against Arizona public school districts. This empirical research paper attempts to answer the following questions: How did Navajo K–12 public school district demographics compare to those of Arizona public school districts from 2006 to 2012? How did Navajo K–12 public school districts perform academically compared to Arizona public school districts from 2006 to 2012? How did Navajo public school district tax rates and assessed property valuation compare to those of Arizona public school districts from 2006 to 2012? How did Navajo public school district revenues compare to those of Arizona public school districts from 2006 to 2012? Research Design This research study is a univariate statistical analysis (i.e., mean, median, standard deviation, range, and percentile) examining general descriptions of individual fiscal revenue variables for schooling. Data Collection and Analysis The data comprised publicly available Arizona Department of Education Excel files (Excel v14.0) merged into one consolidated dataset imported to SPSSv22.0. Our analysis began by selecting Navajo public school districts from our dataset and then comparing them to Arizona public districts (excluding Navajo and nontraditional LEA districts) from 2006 to 2012. Findings/Results This study has two conclusions: (a) There is a clear and growing achievement gap between Navajo and Arizona districts; and (b) Our results seem to suggest that Arizona's equalization formula is not effectively counterbalancing the impact of local property wealth, as shown by the disparities in combined state and local revenue between Navajo K–12 school districts and Arizona districts. Conclusions/Recommendations The findings in this study indicate that Arizona must address policy and practice in order to remedy the educational disparity between Navajo students and their non-Navajo peers. Navajo Nation schools require agency to designate priorities and state funding to meet these priorities.
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Huerta, Grace C. "Implementing AIDS Education." education policy analysis archives 4 (August 15, 1996): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v4n13.1996.
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The world has been challenged by the AIDS epidemic for 15 years. In 1985, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, allocated funds to all state departments of education to assist schools in the development of AIDS education policies and programs. Yet, these policies do not ensure that all students receive effective AIDS education. On September 21, 1991, the Arizona Legislature passed Senate Bill 1396, which requires public schools to annually provide AIDS education in grades K-12. The bill was rescinded in 1995. With prohibitive curriculum guidelines, limited teacher training opportunities and tremendous instructional demands, this educational policy was implemented in disparate forms. By examining the perspectives of the Arizona educators (representing three school districts), this qualitative study reveals how teachers ultimately controlled the delivery and nature of AIDS instruction based upon personal values, views of teacher roles, and their interpretation of the mandate itself.
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Kra, Renee. "Report of the International Radiocarbon Database Workshop." Radiocarbon 31, no. 03 (1989): 1080–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200012765.
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The Chair, Renee Kra, opened the Workshop with the announcement that the IRDB will be officially located at the Geosciences Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, and will begin operating on January 2, 1989.
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Freiburger, Gary, Mary Holcomb, and Dave Piper. "The STARPAHC collection: part of an archive of the history of telemedicine." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 13, no. 5 (July 1, 2007): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/135763307781458949.
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An early telemedicine project involving NASA, the Papago Tribe (now the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation), the Lockheed Missile and Space Company, the Indian Health Service and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare explored the possibilities of using technology to provide improved health care to a remote population in southern Arizona. The project, called STARPAHC (Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care), took place in the 1970s and demonstrated the feasibility of a consortium of public and private partners working together to provide medical care to remote populations via telecommunication. In 2001 the Arizona Health Sciences Library acquired important archival materials documenting the STARPAHC project and in collaboration with the Arizona Telemedicine Program established the Arizona Archive of Telemedicine. The material is likely to interest those studying early attempts to use technology to deliver health care at a distance, as well as those studying the sociological ramifications of technical and scientific projects among indigenous populations.
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Fitzpatrick, Kay, Michael J. Cynecki, Michael P. Pratt, and Michelle Beckley. "Analysis of Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Operation on Higher-Speed Roadways." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2674, no. 5 (April 9, 2020): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198120913558.
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The pedestrian hybrid beacon (PHB) is a traffic control device used at pedestrian crossings. It was first included in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and was based on the HAWK developed in Tucson, Arizona. The focus of an Arizona Department of Transportation research study was the investigation of the use of PHBs on higher-speed roads. Ten locations in Arizona representing higher operating speed conditions (85th percentile speed ranging from 44 to 54 mph) were selected for inclusion in this study. Data were collected using a multiple video camera setup. The final dataset reflected about 40 h of video data and included 1,214 pedestrians or cyclists crossing at PHBs. Overall, driver yielding for these 10 sites averaged 97%, which is similar to driver-yielding rates for PHBs installed on lower-speed streets.
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Ouellette, Ellen, Jenny Chong, Kendra Drake, and David M. Labiner. "Emergency department care of seizure patients: Demographic trends in southern Arizona." Epilepsy & Behavior 21, no. 4 (August 2011): 382–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.05.027.
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Klotz, Stephen, Krystal Fimbres, and Lawrence York. "Infectious Diseases Telemedicine to the Arizona Department of Corrections During SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. A Short Report." Southwest Journal of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep 27, no. 3 (September 23, 2023): 36–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.13175/swjpccs038-23.
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The University of Arizona infectious diseases provides telemedicine clinics to the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) and Pima County Jail. Beginning in January 2020 there was a sharp drop in the number of monthly consultations following the public health emergency regarding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Only since ending the emergency have the number of consults risen each month to pre-pandemic numbers. However, the nature of consult requests has changed. In this report we document the change from predominately human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) consults to a broader spectrum of infectious-related issues, most noteworthy being infective endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and chronic hepatitis B and C infection, the majority of cases due to intravenous drug injection. Although the DOC and jail underwent major upheavals intramurally due to the pandemic, medical outcomes with the diseases listed above, were excellent. The telemedicine infectious diseases clinics continued to provide timely, effective care for inmates.
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Alemán, Luis Antonio Beltrán, Ismael Montero Fernández, Selvin Antonio Saravia Maldonado, Dixon Nohel Morales López, José David Portillo Villanueva, and Nelson Edmundo Arriaga Pérez. "Characterization of Water Quality Indicators in the Micro-basin of the Arizona River, Atlántida (Honduras)." Journal of Agricultural Science 11, no. 6 (May 15, 2019): 394. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jas.v11n6p394.
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The water quality was studied in the basin of the Arizona River, supplier of the urban helmet of the municipality of Arizona, department of Atlántida (Honduras). In order to determine the quality of the water provided to the population. The methodology implemented consisted in carrying out tours in the area to obtain information on the delimitation, maps of land uses using tools of the geographic information system (GIS), then it was determined to assign the sampling sites for the three days for three months being the the following: take, storage tank and three taps of the urban center of the municipality of Arizona. The analytical parameters for the micro-watershed (site work) were evaluated and analyzed by the NSF ICA with a multivariate statistical analysis of principal component methods, the remaining analyzes were developed in comparisons according to the admissible values of the Standard Technique for the Quality of Drinking Water of Honduras 1995.
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Jimenez-Silva, Margarita, Katie Bernstein, and Evelyn Baca. "An analysis of how restrictive language policies are interpreted by Arizona’s Department of Education and three individual school districts’ websites." education policy analysis archives 24 (October 17, 2016): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2291.
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Restrictive language policies for education have been passed in several states in the United States. In 1998, 2000, and 2002, California, Arizona, and Massachusetts passed the most restrictive of these policies, impacting 4.4 million students classified as English language learners (ELLs). This study examines how these policies are currently interpreted and presented to the public on Arizona’s Department of Education website, as well as how they are interpreted and presented on the websites of three of the state’s largest school districts. We seek to understand how three key elements of the laws—one-year programmatic time limits, Structured English Immersion (SEI) programs, and waiver processes—are conveyed by each text. Using tools from critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003, 2013, 2015), we trace the endurance or disappearance of these elements between texts and across time. Textual differences are discussed as reflecting and perpetuating important contextual differences among the districts.
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Flintsch, Gerardo W., and John P. Zaniewski. "Expert Project Recommendation Procedure for Arizona Department of Transportation’s Pavement Management System." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1592, no. 1 (January 1997): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1592-04.
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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) uses a network-level pavement management system to determine budget requirements for its annual pavement preservation program. Although this is a valuable tool for preservation programming, it does not assist the engineers with the selection of projects and rehabilitation treatments. The documented research was designed to enhance the capability of ADOT’s pavement management system to include project selection. An automatic project recommendation procedure was developed and implemented in a user-friendly, modular computer program. This automatic system is expected to reduce considerably the effort required to develop the preservation programs. It should improve the consistency of the decision process. The analysis starts with a section delineation procedure that delineates uniform roadway sections. It then computes the remaining service life of each uniform section by using linear performance equations and trigger points defined for each condition indicator. An artificial neural network simulator is used to screen and recommend roadway sections for the preservation program. The trained artificial neural network prepares a list of candidate sections, using the criteria learned from past selections and the current condition of all pavement sections. This preliminary list of candidate sections is further analyzed by a project recommendation procedure. This procedure recommends a preservation treatment, assigns a priority rating to each section in the list, and sorts the projects by priority. Funding is assigned to the highest-priority sections within each roadway group until the budget recommendation provided by the network optimization process is reached.
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Eaves, Emery R., Jarrett Barber, Ryann Whealy, Sara A. Clancey, Rita Wright, Jill Hager Cocking, Joseph Spadafino, and Crystal M. Hepp. "Characterization of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome in Arizona from 2010-2017." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (June 3, 2021): e0248476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248476.
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In this paper, we describe a population of mothers who are opioid dependent at the time of giving birth and neonates exposed to opioids in utero who experience withdrawal following birth. While there have been studies of national trends in this population, there remains a gap in studies of regional trends. Using data from the Arizona Department of Health Services Hospital Discharge Database, this study aimed to characterize the population of neonates with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) and mothers who were opioid dependent at the time of giving birth, in Arizona. We analyzed approximately 1.2 million electronic medical records from the Arizona Department of Health Services Hospital Discharge Database to identify patterns and disparities across socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, and/or geographic groupings. In addition, we identified comorbid conditions that are differentially associated with NOWS in neonates or opioid dependence in mothers. Our analysis was designed to assess whether indicators such as race/ethnicity, insurance payer, marital status, and comorbidities are related to the use of opioids while pregnant. Our findings suggest that women and neonates who are non-Hispanic White and economically disadvantaged, tend be part of our populations of interest more frequently than expected. Additionally, women who are opioid dependent at the time of giving birth are unmarried more often than expected, and we suggest that marital status could be a proxy for support. Finally, we identified comorbidities associated with neonates who have NOWS and mothers who are opioid dependent not previously reported.
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Winscott, M., A. Betancourt, and R. Ereth. "P1-S4.07 The use of the Arizona Department of Health Services surveillance database to identify discordant syphilis treponemal laboratory results, Arizona." Sexually Transmitted Infections 87, Suppl 1 (July 1, 2011): A163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050108.151.
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McLoughlin, John Grant. "Solutions to Calendar." Mathematics Teacher 91, no. 4 (April 1998): 311–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.91.4.0311.
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Problems 1-9, 13-18, and 25 were contributed by Todd Swanson, Department of Mathematics, Hope College, Holland, MI 49422-9000. Problems 10, 11, and 19-23 were submitted by Calvin T. Long, Department of Mathematics, Northern Arizona University, P. 0. Box 5717, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5717. Problems 12 and 27-30 were prepared by Marian Small, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 6E3. Problems 24 and 26 were offered by HarrisS. Shultz, California State University, Fullerton, P. 0. Box 6850, Fullerton, CA 92834-6850.
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Iverson, Sally Ann, Aaron Gettel, Carla P. Bezold, Kate Goodin, Benita McKinney, Rebecca Sunenshine, and Vjollca Berisha. "Heat-Associated Mortality in a Hot Climate." Public Health Reports 135, no. 5 (July 20, 2020): 631–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033354920938006.
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Objectives Maricopa County, Arizona (2017 population about 4.3 million), is located in the Sonoran Desert. In 2005, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) established a heat-associated mortality surveillance system that captures data on circumstances of death for Maricopa County residents and visitors. We analyzed 2006-2016 surveillance system data to understand the characteristics and circumstances of heat-associated deaths. Methods We classified heat-associated deaths based on International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes (X30, T67.X, and P81.0) and phrases (heat exposure, environ, exhaustion, sun, heat stress, heat stroke, or hyperthermia) in part I or part II of the death certificate. We summarized data on decedents’ demographic characteristics, years lived in Arizona, location of death (indoors vs outdoors), presence and functionality of air conditioning, and whether the decedent had been homeless. We examined significant associations between variables by using the Pearson χ2 tests and logistic regression. Results During 2006-2016, MCDPH recorded data on 920 heat-associated deaths, 912 of which included location of injury. Of 565 (62%) heat-associated deaths that occurred outdoors, 458 (81%) were among male decedents and 243 (43%) were among decedents aged 20-49. Of 347 (38%) heat-associated deaths that occurred indoors, 201 (58%) were among decedents aged ≥65. Non-Arizona residents were 5 times as likely as Arizona residents to have a heat-associated death outdoors ( P < .001). Of 727 decedents with data on duration of Arizona residency, 438 (60%) had resided in Arizona ≥20 years. Conclusions Ongoing evaluation of interventions that target populations at risk for both outdoor and indoor heat-associated deaths can further inform refinement of the surveillance system and identify best practices to prevent heat-associated deaths.
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Panchanathan, S., V. Patel, H. Silverman, E. H. Shortliffe, and R. A. Greenes. "Biomedical Informatics in the Desert - A New and Unique Program at Arizona State University." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 17, no. 01 (August 2008): 150–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1638594.
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Summary Objectives A new academic Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Program in Phoenix, Arizona, embodies a unique organizational structure to draw on the strengths of a computer science and informatics school and the biomedical and clinical strengths of a college of medicine, in an effort to infuse informatics approaches broadly. MethodsThe program reflects a partnership of two state universities that situates the Arizona State University (ASU) Department of BMI on a new downtown Phoenix Biomedical Campus with the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine in partnership with ASU (COMPHX). Plans call for development of faculty and expertise in the four major subdomains of BMI, as well as in various cross-cutting capabilities. Results Coming into existence in a state that is investing significantly in biomedical science and technology, BMI has already developed Masters and PhD degree programs, is working with COMPHX to integrate informatics intensively into the education of the medical students, and has been authorized to plan for an undergraduate program in BMI. Reflecting the statewide emphasis on the biomedical and health sector, the growing faculty are engaged in a number of research partnerships and collaborative centers. Conclusions As one of the newest academic BMI programs is taking shape in Arizona, it is embarking on a wide-ranging educational program and a broad research agenda that are now in their earliest stages.
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McGuire, Robert, and Eric Moore. "Using a configurable EMR and decision support tools to promote process integration for routine HIV screening in the emergency department." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 23, no. 2 (September 2, 2015): 396–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv031.
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Abstract Given the clinical and public health benefits of routine Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing in the emergency department (ED) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, Maricopa Medical Center, as part of Maricopa Integrated Health System, started Test, Educate, Support, and Treat Arizona (TESTAZ) and became the first and, to-date, only hospital in Arizona to implement routine, non-targeted, opt-out, rapid HIV screening in the ED. The authors describe the implementation of a universal, routine, opt-out HIV screening program in the adult ED of an urban safety-net hospital serving under-served populations, including the uninsured and under-insured. Through a controlled and collaborative process, the authors integrated custom documentation elements specific to HIV screening into the triage/intake process, implemented and utilized clinical decision support tools to guide clinicians in each step of the process, and used electronic data collection and reporting to drive new screening protocols that led to a significant increase in overall HIV testing rates.
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Jobe, Ndey Bassin, Nico M. Franz, Murray A. Johnston, Adele B. Malone, Irene Ruberto, John Townsend, James B. Will, Kelsey M. Yule, and Krijn P. Paaijmans. "The Mosquito Fauna of Arizona: Species Composition and Public Health Implications." Insects 15, no. 6 (June 6, 2024): 432. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects15060432.
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Arizona is home to many mosquito species, some of which are known vectors of infectious diseases that harm both humans and animals. Here, we provide an overview of the 56 mosquito species that have been identified in the State to date, but also discuss their known feeding preference and the diseases they can (potentially) transmit to humans and animals. This list is unlikely to be complete for several reasons: (i) Arizona’s mosquitoes are not systematically surveyed in many areas, (ii) surveillance efforts often target specific species of interest, and (iii) doubts have been raised by one or more scientists about the accuracy of some collection records, which has been noted in this article. There needs to be an integrated and multifaceted surveillance approach that involves entomologists and epidemiologists, but also social scientists, wildlife ecologists, ornithologists, representatives from the agricultural department, and irrigation and drainage districts. This will allow public health officials to (i) monitor changes in current mosquito species diversity and abundance, (ii) monitor the introduction of new or invasive species, (iii) identify locations or specific populations that are more at risk for mosquito-borne diseases, and (iv) effectively guide vector control.
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Henriksen, Erik J., Anne E. Atwater, Nicholas A. Delamere, and William H. Dantzler. "The Physiology undergraduate major in the University of Arizona College of Medicine: past, present, and future." Advances in Physiology Education 35, no. 2 (June 2011): 103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/advan.00089.2010.
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The American Physiological Society (APS) and APS Council encourage the teaching of physiology at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels to support the continued prominence of this area of science. One area identified by the APS Council that is of particular importance for the development of future physiologists (the “physiology pipeline”) is the teaching of physiology and physiology-related topics at the undergraduate level. In this article, we describe the historical development and implementation of an undergraduate program offered through the Department of Physiology, a basic science department in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona, culminating in a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree with a major in Physiology. Moreover, we discuss the current Physiology curriculum offered at our institution and explain how this program prepares our students for successful entry into a variety of postbaccalaureate professional programs, including medical school and numerous other programs in health professions, and in graduate study in the Masters and Doctoral programs in biomedical sciences. Finally, we cover the considerable challenges that we have faced, and continue to face, in developing and sustaining a successful physiology undergraduate major in a college of medicine. We hope that the information provided on the Physiology major offered by the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona will be helpful for individuals at other institutions who may be contemplating the development and implementation of an undergraduate program in Physiology.
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Wilt, Kristen, Charis Ober, John Garcia, and Jennifer Botsford. "Abstract 33 A Diverse and Sustainable State-Run Public Cord Blood Program." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 11, Supplement_1 (September 1, 2022): S39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/stcltm/szac057.033.
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Abstract Introduction The Arizona Public Cord Blood Program was created in 2011 by the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre, a subsection of the Arizona Department of Health Services, to advance the collection and increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse cord blood units available for transplantation, as well as to promote awareness of the benefits of cord blood stem cells through our educational partner, Save the Cord Foundation (STCF). Objective The main objective of this study was to create a sustainable program for women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds to have the opportunity to donate cord blood, with the primary goal of transplantation and the secondary goal of providing non-transplantable cord blood units for research. A second objective was to educate the residents of the state of Arizona about cord blood stem cells and the need for their preservation. Methods A portion of state lottery funds support the program monetarily. Those funds are provided to four partner collection hospitals employing "cord blood consenters," whose responsibility it is to consent patients, assist delivery providers with collections, and package and ship cord blood units to our partner cord blood bank at MD Anderson Cancer Center. There are also two clinical coordinators who educate and train hospital staff on quality collection practices, with special emphasis on the importance of high-volume, sterile collections. STCF provides education across the state to expectant parents, health care providers, schools, and the public about the need for cord blood stem cell donation for transplant and research. Results Since 2011, the Arizona Public Cord Blood Program has banked several hundreds of racially and ethnically diverse cord blood units with the National Marrow Donor Program (Figure 1) and has had 80 life-saving cord blood units matched with patients in need around the globe. This innovative program has expanded cord blood awareness and promoted the preservation of cord blood, and it also has resulted in the creation of an economic engine for the state of Arizona that is an attractant for STEM-based businesses and careers. Discussion A decade later, the Arizona Public Cord Blood Program has proven to be a sustainable model for collecting and providing suitable cord blood units for transplant to diverse patient populations.
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Wilt, Kristen, Charis Ober, and John Garcia. "Abstract 15 A State-Run Public Cord Blood Collection Program." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 12, Supplement_1 (September 1, 2023): S17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/stcltm/szad047.016.
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Abstract Introduction The Arizona Public Cord Blood Program was created in 2011 by the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre, a sub-section of the Arizona Department of Health Services, to advance the collection and increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse cord blood units available for transplantation, as well as promote awareness of the benefits of cord blood stem cells through our educational partner, Save the Cord Foundation (STCF). Objectives Create a sustainable program for women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds to have the opportunity to donate cord blood, with the primary goal of transplantation, and secondary goal of providing non-transplantable cord blood units for research. A second objective was to educate the residents of the state of Arizona about cord blood stem cells and the need for their preservation. Methods A portion of state lottery funds supports the program monetarily. Those funds are provided to four collection hospitals who employ "cord blood consenters" whose responsibility it is to consent patients, assist delivery providers with collections, and package and ship cord blood units to our partner cord blood bank at MD Anderson Cancer Center. There are also two clinical coordinators who educate and train hospital staff on quality collection practices, with special emphasis on the importance of high volume, sterile collections. STCF provides education across the state to expectant parents, healthcare providers, schools, and the public about the need for cord blood stem cell donation for transplant and research. Results Since 2011, the Arizona Public Cord Blood Program has banked hundreds of racially and ethnically diverse cord blood units with the National Marrow Donor Program, and has had 86 life-saving cord blood units matched with patients in need around the globe. This innovative program has not only expanded cord blood awareness and promoted the preservation of cord blood; it has resulted in the creation of an economic engine for the state of Arizona that is an attractant for STEM based businesses and careers. Discussion A decade later, the Arizona Public Cord Blood Program has proven to be a sustainable model for collecting and providing suitable cord blood units for transplant to diverse patient populations.
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Russell, K., K. Herrick, H. Venkat, S. Brady, K. Komatsu, K. Goodin, V. Berisha, et al. "Utility of state-level influenza disease burden and severity estimates to investigate an apparent increase in reported severe cases of influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 – Arizona, 2015–2016." Epidemiology and Infection 146, no. 11 (June 14, 2018): 1359–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268818001516.
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AbstractThe Arizona Department of Health Services identified unusually high levels of influenza activity and severe complications during the 2015–2016 influenza season leading to concerns about potential increased disease severity compared with prior seasons. We estimated state-level burden and severity to compare across three seasons using multiple data sources for community-level illness, hospitalisation and death. Severity ratios were calculated as the number of hospitalisations or deaths per community case. Community influenza-like illness rates, hospitalisation rates and mortality rates in 2015–2016 were higher than the previous two seasons. However, ratios of severe disease to community illness were similar. Arizona experienced overall increased disease burden in 2015–2016, but not increased severity compared with prior seasons. Timely estimates of state-specific burden and severity are potentially feasible and may provide important information during seemingly unusual influenza seasons or pandemic situations.
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Knopf, Alison. "Study will use OTP to look at methadone reform." Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 35, no. 44 (November 10, 2023): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adaw.33947.
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A new study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and headed by researchers interested in changing the way methadone for opioid use disorder is utilized will use Community Medical Services treatment staff and patients as research subjects. Community Medical Services operates more than 60 opioid treatment programs in 11 states, and is the first OTP, or methadone clinic, to be open around the clock in some areas, with head Nicholas Stavros incorporating novel ways to reach out to patients. The MPACT (Methadone Patient Access to Collaborative Treatment) study will develop and test a medical intervention using a $1 million NIDA grant. Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, under the direction of Beth Meyerson, Ph.D., will test a “patient‐empowered, trauma‐informed” treatment using methadone in Arizona. Meyerson is a professor, and director of the Harm Reduction Research Lab in the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson. The study will take two years. “Improving methadone treatment is critical because one person dies from an opioid overdose every five minutes in this country,” said Meyerson, who is also director of policy for the University of Arizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center. “Access to methadone has been found to reduce opioid overdoses by 80%, but it is currently being delivered in ways that can create suboptimal patient outcomes, where only 30% of patients complete treatment and over 30% experience significant treatment interruptions.” The protocol will be used to focus on how to make treatment more acceptable to patients and includes a staff‐focused intervention to reduce trauma related to actually working in the OTP. “Vicarious trauma has been found to impact both patient care and staff recognition of the need to adopt treatment and practice innovations,” Meyerson said, adding, “This study is the crucial first step in assessing MPACT's feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects on patient and staff outcomes. Once our established milestones are reached from the pilot program, the second phase of funding will enable us to expand the study of MPACT among 30 clinics with 600 patients and 450 staff members across the U.S.” Kristen Rundell, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona, where Meyerson's harm reduction lab is based, said the study “is a prime example of our department's emphasis of social justice through medicine.”
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Way, George B. "Flagstaff I-40 Asphalt Rubber Overlay Project: Nine Years of Success." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1723, no. 1 (January 2000): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1723-06.
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In 1990 the Arizona Department of Transportation designed and constructed a large-scale asphalt rubber (AR) test project in Flagstaff, Arizona, on the very heavily trafficked Interstate 40. The purpose of the test project was to determine whether a relatively thin overlay with AR could reduce reflective cracking. AR is a mixture of 80 percent hot paving-grade asphalt and 20 percent ground tire rubber. This mixture is also commonly referred to as the asphalt rubber wet process or McDonald process. The overlay project was built on top of a very badly cracked concrete pavement that was in need of reconstruction. The AR overlay has performed beyond original expectations. After 9 years of service the overlay is still virtually crack free, with good ride, virtually no rutting or maintenance, and good skid resistance. The benefits of using AR on this project represent about $18 million in construction savings and 4 years’ less construction time. Strategic Highway Research Program SPS-6 test sections built in conjunction with the project further illustrate the very good performance of AR. Results of this project have led to widespread use of AR hot mixes throughout Arizona. On the basis of this work over 3333 km (2,000 mi) of successfully performing AR pavements have been built since 1990.
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Harris, Tara R., Whitney L. Heuring, Ruth A. Allard, Audrey K. Owens, Shaula Hedwall, Cat Crawford, and Christina Akins. "Over 25 Years of Partnering to Conserve Chiricahua Leopard Frogs (Rana chiricahuensis) in Arizona, Combining Ex Situ and In Situ Strategies." Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens 3, no. 4 (October 28, 2022): 532–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jzbg3040039.
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The Phoenix Zoo has partnered with US Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department, US Forest Service, and other organizations for more than 25 years to help recover Chiricahua leopard frogs (Rana [=Lithobates] chiricahuensis) in Arizona, USA. This federally threatened species faces declines due to habitat loss and degradation, long-term drought, disease, and invasive species. Over 26,000 larvae, froglets, and adults, as well as 26 egg masses produced by adults held at the Phoenix Zoo have been released to the wild, augmenting and/or re-establishing wild populations. Chiricahua leopard frog-occupied sites in Arizona have increased from 38 in 2007, when the species’ recovery plan was published, to a high of 155 in the last five years, as a result of ex situ and in situ conservation efforts. As one of the longest-running programs of its kind in the United States, communication among partners has been key to sustaining it. Recovery strategies and complex decisions are made as a team and we have worked through numerous management challenges together. Though Chiricahua leopard frogs still face significant threats and a long road to recovery, this program serves as a strong example of the positive effects of conservation partnerships for native wildlife.
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Mayer, Patricia, David Beyda, and Bree Johnston. "Arizona Hospitals and Health Systems’ Statewide Collaboration Producing a Triage Protocol During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care 22, no. 6 (June 8, 2021): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc014-21.
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We describe the process by which all hospitals and health systems in Arizona, normally competitors, rapidly cooperated to develop a statewide protocol (“Addendum”) delineating how to allocate scarce resources during the COVID-19 pandemic should triage be required anywhere in the state. Eight physician ethicists from seven different health systems created the Addendum, which was accepted by all hospitals and health systems, approved by the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee (SDMAC), and then formally adopted by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS). In addition, the entire state developed a plan to “stick together” such that no facility would be forced to triage unless all were overwhelmed. Because we are unaware of any other state’s hospitals and health systems producing and committing to a shared triage protocol and plan, we believe this experience can serve as a model for other locales during the absence of sufficient state or federal guidance.
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Bernays, Elizabeth A. "An Unlikely Beginning: A Fortunate Life." Annual Review of Entomology 64, no. 1 (January 7, 2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-011118-111820.
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Elizabeth A. Bernays grew up in Australia and studied at the University of Queensland before traveling in Europe and teaching high school in London. She later obtained a PhD in entomology at London University. Then, as a British government scientist, she worked in England and in developing countries on a variety of projects concerned with feeding by herbivorous insects and their physiology and behavior. In 1983, she was appointed professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research expanded to a variety of topics, all related to the physiology, behavior, and ecology of feeding in insects. She was awarded a DSc from the University of London, and at about the same time became head of the Department of Entomology and regents’ professor at the University of Arizona. In Arizona, most of her research involved multiple approaches to the understanding of diet breadth in a variety of phytophagous insect species.
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Sousa, Jorge B., George Way, and John T. Harvey. "Performance-Based Mix Design and Field Quality Control for Asphalt-Aggregate Overlays." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1543, no. 1 (January 1996): 46–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198196154300106.
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In its continuing effort to improve pavement technology, the Arizona Department of Transportation evaluated the use of the repetitive simple shear test at constant height and flexural bending beam test as part of the mix design and field quality assurance process. The results of the efforts, conducted to design and place an overlay on a test section, indicated that those tests and associated analysis procedures are feasible and implementable for routine use.
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Echeverria, Stephanie L., Alfredo J. Mena Lora, Rodrigo M. Burgos, Emad Hammode, Benjamin Ihms, John Ashurst, and Anthony Santarelli. "Addressing COVID-19 Disparities Between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Populations of Arizona." Journal of the National Hispanic Medical Association 1, no. 1 (April 27, 2023): 4–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.59867/nhma0101.
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Introduction: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic1,2 contributed to over 1.03 million deaths in the United States (U.S.) and 30,768 deaths in Arizona3. Nationwide, Hispanics are at increased risk for infection, hospitalization, and death, when compared to non-Hispanic White (NHW)4. Although Hispanic COVID-19 disparities are clear in the U.S., study of Hispanic COVID-19 disparities in Arizona are less clear. Objective: To compare COVID-19 interventions and clinical outcomes between Hispanic and NHW populations in rural and urban healthcare settings of Arizona. Methods: A retrospective cohort of COVID-19 patients from January 1, 2020 through June 17, 2022 admitted to hospitals affiliated with the Midwestern University Graduate Medical Education consortium were assessed. Data was abstracted to counterbalance NHW and minority patients by date of admission. Data collected included patient demographics, presenting symptoms, vital signs, laboratory values at the time of emergency department presentation, treatment modalities, and clinical outcomes. Results: A total of 627 patients were analyzed with 31.7% (199/627) identifying as Hispanic, 41.8% (262/627) female, and 61.9% (388/627) allocated to the rural hospital group. No difference in mortality was seen in the rural or urban setting and there was no difference in administered COVID-19 therapeutics. Kaplan-Meier curves were parallel between Hispanic and NHW patients who survived COVID-19 with no difference in the length of stay (LOS) days. Kaplan-Meier curves differed between Hispanics and NHW patients who expired from COVID-19 with Hispanics at a greater LOS prior to mortality. Differences between Hispanic and NHW mortality patients included Hispanics presenting at a younger age, increased CRP elevations, and a greater delay between symptom onset and COVID-19 testing. Hispanics who expired were more likely to present with shortness of breath, hypoxia, and a documented bacterial infection during hospitalization as compared to Hispanics who survived. Conclusion: Following admission, patients regardless of Hispanic or NHW identification, received equitable care in our Arizona subset which resulted in comparable rates of mortality. Hispanics initially presented at increased disease severity, which is suggestive of factors outside of the hospital, prior to admission, responsible for the disparities seen at the national level with variation between states.
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey, Joshua H. Barnett, and Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh. "Seven Legitimate Apprehensions About Evaluating Teacher Education Programs and Seven “Beyond Excuses” Imperatives." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 115, no. 12 (December 2013): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811311501205.
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Background Via the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), stronger accountability proponents are now knocking on the doors of the colleges of education that prepare teachers and, many argue, prepare teachers ineffectively. This is raising questions about how effective and necessary teacher education programs indeed are. While research continues to evidence that teachers have a large impact on student achievement, the examination of teacher education programs is a rational backward mapping of understanding how teachers impact students. Nonetheless, whether and how evaluations of teacher education programs should be conducted is yet another hotly debated issue in the profession. Purpose The purpose of this project is to describe how one of the largest teacher education programs in the nation has taken a lead position toward evaluating itself, and has begun to take responsibility for its impact on the public school system. This research also presents the process of establishing a self-evaluation initiative across the state of Arizona and provides a roadmap for how other colleges and universities might begin a similar process. Setting and Participants This work focuses on the Teacher Preparation Research and Evaluation Project (T-PREP) that spawned via the collaborative efforts among the deans and representative faculty from Arizona State University (ASU), Northern Arizona University (NAU), and the University of Arizona (UofA). The colleges of education located within each respective university are the colleges that train the vast majority of educators in the state of Arizona. Participants also included other key stakeholders in the state of Arizona, including the deans and representative faculty from the aforementioned colleges of education, leaders representing the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), and other key leaders and constituents involved in the state's education system (e.g., the state's union and school board leaders and representatives). Research Design This serves as a case study example of how others might conduct such self-examinations at the collaborative and the institutional level, as well as more local levels. Conclusions This work resulted in a set of seven “beyond excuses” imperatives that participants involved in the T-PREP consortium developed and participants at the local level carried forward. The seven key imperatives are important for other colleges of education to consider as they too embark on pathways toward examining their teacher education programs and using evaluation results in both formative and summative ways.
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Zeien, Justin, Jaime Vieira, Jeffery Hanna, Likith Surendra, Jake Stenzel, Alma Ramirez, Catherine Miller, and Cecilia Rosales. "Mpox Case Reports in an Urban Homeless Population and a Proof of Concept for a Street-Based Mobile Mpox Vaccination Clinic." Journal of Primary Care & Community Health 14 (January 2023): 215013192311699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501319231169991.
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Mpox is a new public health outbreak that particularly threatens the homeless population. Street Medicine Phoenix (SMP) is a student-led interprofessional volunteer organization that provides medical care and other essential services to individuals experiencing homelessness in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to core services such as wound care; health screenings (blood pressure and blood glucose.); vision screenings; HIV testing; naloxone education and distribution; flu, COVID-19, and Hepatitis A vaccinations; and community resource referrals, SMP began offering mpox education and vaccination at outreach events. During an outreach event shortly after the onset of the mpox outbreak, SMP identified 2 suspected mpox cases. Accordingly, SMP has partnered with the Maricopa County Public Health Department to set up mobile mpox vaccination clinics on the streets outside of Phoenix Arizona’s largest homeless shelter. We share the details of these 2 cases along with our early efforts vaccinating individuals experiencing homelessness for mpox via our mobile vaccination clinic. Our experiences demonstrate the importance of community agencies providing direct outreach to underserved populations where they are at, particularly the homeless population, to address public health concerns such as emerging disease outbreaks like mpox. In addition, these cases highlight the potential significant impact that street medicine programs can have on their respective homeless communities in the context of infectious disease mitigation and emphasize the importance of partnerships with local health departments.
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Kuykendall, Greg. "Defending Those Who Protect Refugees." Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 114 (2020): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/amp.2021.16.
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The United States government created and then nourished an ever-growing humanitarian aid crisis over the last twenty-five years in the borderlands of Arizona. Many thousands have perished and many thousands more have suffered unconscionable hardship and horrific abuse as a direct result of this crisis of the government's own making. Making matters excruciatingly worse, recently the Trump administration's Department of Justice escalated the crisis by prosecuting humanitarian aid workers for their life-saving actions.
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De Medeiros, Alessandro Boechat. "Interview with Noam Chomsky." Revista Linguíʃtica 13, no. 2 (September 1, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14025.
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<p>Avram Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and recently became a laureate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of Arizona. He has been the leader of the generative enterprise in linguistic theory since its beginning, in the late fifties, and is considered by many the father of modern Linguistics. In fact, his views have influenced the whole field and established points of departure for research in formal syntax, phonology and even semantics.</p><hr /><p><strong>ENTREVISTA COM NOAM CHOMSKY</strong></p><p>Avram Noam Chomsky é um renomado linguista, filósofo e ativista político. Ele é professor emérito do Departamento de Linguística do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts e recentemente se tornou professor laureado no Departamento de Linguística da Universidade do Arizona. Ele tem sido o líder do empreendimento gerativo na teoria linguística desde o seu início, no final dos anos 50, e é considerado por muitos o pai da linguística moderna. De fato, suas visões influenciaram todo o campo e estabeleceram pontos de partida para a pesquisa em sintaxe formal, fonologia e até mesmo semântica.</p><hr />
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Rauch, Ethan. "Context-Sensitive Solution for Arizona State Route 179." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1904, no. 1 (January 2005): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105190400110.
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The Arizona Department of Transportation (DOT) is following an innovative approach called a needs-based implementation plan (NBIP) to improve State Route 179, in Sedona, Arizona. The NBIP process consists of a coordinated, collaborative team effort to assess needs and develop solutions for this corridor. Throughout the process, Arizona DOT has solicited input and involvement from the community by using a variety of methods, such as advisory panels, focus groups, workshops, a website, and charrettes (collaborative planning events with a specific goal and a limited time frame that harness the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a feasible outcome). The NBIP process takes a context-sensitive solutions approach by balancing safety, mobility, and the preservation of scenic, aesthetic, historic, environmental, and other community values. A key component of the approach is that citizens play an active role in the planning, design, and construction of the corridor. Working with Arizona DOT throughout the process are the Big Park Regional Coordinating Council, Yavapai County, Coconino National Forest, FHWA, city of Sedona, and Coconino County. The NBIP process is structured around a series of three charrettes: first, a planning charrette, in which the community articulated its core values and long-range vision for the corridor, and a second charrette, in which participants worked in small groups at gaming workshops to build their road. In addition, an evaluation program, which consisted of evaluation criteria and performance measures, was developed to screen planning concepts resulting from the gaming workshop. At two screening workshops and a third charrette, the community screened 12 planning concepts to produce a single preferred planning concept consisting of a greatly improved two-lane facility.
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Hicks, Robert. "Team Policing In A Yaqui Community." Practicing Anthropology 7, no. 3 (July 1, 1985): 15–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.7.3.pn15827w8151101x.
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The most persistent problem in American policing is style: the police are continually challenged to perform according to the community's expectations of how police ought to perform. During the 1960's, the violent confrontations between police and minority communities forced the convening of the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals which examined the entire criminal justice system and offered recommendations for improvement. In the case of poor minority communities, the Commission recommended that the police adopt a particular style, the team policing model, in order to obtain better cooperation from citizens and, ultimately, greater assistance in solving and preventing crimes. Team policing projects have emerged in many cities. Some have failed, others prosper. During 1977-78, I scrutinized one such program that failed. I chronicled the demise of a two-year team policing project conducted by the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department (PCSD) in the New Pascua Yaqui community located twenty miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona.
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Sykes, Kaitlyn J., Rebecca A. Scranton, Lisa Villarroel, Bree V. Anderson, Sara Salek, and Jonathan Stall. "Using Surveillance Data to Respond to an Outbreak of Congenital Syphilis in Arizona Through Third-Trimester Screening Policies, 2017-2018." Public Health Reports 136, no. 1 (November 19, 2020): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033354920967350.
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Introduction The number of congenital syphilis (CS) cases in Arizona quadrupled from an average of 14 cases annually before 2017 to 61 cases in 2018, and a statewide outbreak was declared. The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) analyzed statewide surveillance data to identify missed opportunities for prevention and collaborated with the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) to inform response activities. Methods ADHS developed a metric to identify missed opportunities for CS prevention during pregnancy by using medical records, vital records, and case investigation notes for all mothers of infants born with CS from January 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018. AHCCCS conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis to calculate the effect of increasing perinatal syphilis screening. Results Arizona had 57 cases of CS during the study period, of which 17 (29.8%) could have been prevented through third-trimester screening for women who were in prenatal care but screened late (n = 9), were infected after their first prenatal visit screen (n = 7), or were reinfected after an initial reactive syphilis test and appropriate treatment and not rescreened (n = 1). The estimated net cost of combining the additional primary (screening) and secondary (treatment) costs of a third-trimester screen for all pregnant AHCCCS members and the estimated total per-year savings of all newborn hospitalizations was $527. Practice Implications Third-trimester syphilis screening could prevent CS in regions where syphilis transmission is high. Partnering with health insurance agencies to evaluate the cost effectiveness of screening recommendations may improve the accuracy of the estimate of the potential cost savings by using insurance agency–specific data for the population at risk for CS.
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Hita, Liza Cohen, Sanford L. Braver, Irwin N. Sandler, Phillip Knox, and Marylou Strehle. "FAMILY COURT-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP TO BENEFIT DIVORCING FAMILIES: THE EXPERIENCE OF MARICOPA COUNTY (ARIZONA) FAMILY COURT DEPARTMENT AND ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY'S PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER*." Family Court Review 47, no. 3 (July 2009): 436–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2009.01266.x.
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Stillman, Susan, Xubin Zeng, William J. Shuttleworth, David C. Goodrich, Carl L. Unkrich, and Marek Zreda. "Spatiotemporal Variability of Summer Precipitation in Southeastern Arizona." Journal of Hydrometeorology 14, no. 6 (November 22, 2013): 1944–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-13-017.1.
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Abstract The Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) in southeastern Arizona covers ~150 km2 and receives the majority of its annual precipitation from highly variable and intermittent summer storms during the North American monsoon. In this study, the patterns of precipitation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) 88-rain-gauge network are analyzed for July through September from 1956 to 2011. Because small-scale convective systems generate most of this summer rainfall, the total (T), intensity (I), and frequency (F) exhibit high spatial and temporal variability. Although subsidiary periods may have apparent trends, no significant trends in T, I, and F were found for the study period as a whole. Observed trends in the spatial coverage of storms change sign in the late 1970s, and the multidecadal variation in I and spatial coverage of storms have statistically significant correlation with the Pacific decadal oscillation and the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation indices. Precipitation has a pronounced diurnal cycle with the highest T and F occurring between 1500 and 2200 LT, and its average fractional coverage over 2- and 12-h periods is less than 40% and 60% of the gauges, respectively. Although more gauges are needed to estimate area-averaged daily precipitation, 5–11 gauges can provide a reasonable estimate of the area-averaged monthly total precipitation during the period from July through September.
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Ledesma, Daniela, Hanna Maroofi, Susanna Sabin, Timothy J. Dennehy, Jasmine M. Truong, Laura G. Meyer, McMillan Salik, et al. "Design and Implementation of a COVID-19 Case Investigation Program: An Academic–Public Health Partnership, Arizona, 2020." Public Health Reports 137, no. 2 (January 21, 2022): 213–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00333549211068495.
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From May through July 2020, Arizona was a global hotspot for new COVID-19 cases. In response to the surge of cases, local public health departments looked for innovative ways to form external partnerships to address their staffing needs. In collaboration with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, the Arizona State University Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT) created and implemented a virtual call center to conduct public health case investigations for COVID-19. SORT officially launched a dedicated COVID-19 case investigation program after 3 weeks of program design and training. From June 29 through November 8, 2020, SORT recruited and trained 218 case investigators, completed 5000 case patient interviews, and closed 10 000 cases. Our team also developed process improvements to address disparities in case investigation timeliness. A strong infrastructure designed to accommodate remote case investigations, paired with a large workforce, enabled SORT to provide additional surge capacity for the county’s high volume of cases. University-driven multidisciplinary case investigator teams working in partnership with state, tribal, and local public health staff members can be an effective tool for supporting a diverse and growing public health workforce. We discuss the essential design factors involved in building a university program to complement local COVID-19 response efforts, including workflows for case management, volunteer case investigator recruitment and training, secure technology platforms for conducting case investigations remotely, and robust data-tracking procedures for maintaining quality control and timely case reporting.
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Kesteloot, Lauren, and Michael T. Lebec. "Physical Therapist Consultation in the Emergency Department: A Multiple Case Report Describing Three Arizona Programs." Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy 3, no. 3 (2012): 224–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01592394-201203030-00001.
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Alonzo-Vaughn, Nancy, Raquel Bradley, and Michelle Cassavaugh. "PBIS in Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections: How Tier II Practices Build Upon Tier I." Residential Treatment for Children & Youth 32, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 321–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0886571x.2015.1113458.
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Tayob, A. I. "Approaches to the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies." American Journal of Islam and Society 9, no. 3 (October 1, 1992): 425–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v9i3.2585.
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This conference was convened by J. H. Dreyer of the Department ofSemitic Studies at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, andthe Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town,South Africa. It was preceded by a banquet, during which the Islamic Studiesprogram of the Department of Religious Studies was introduced to the peopleof Cape Town. Approximately 250 invited guests attended the conference,which was well received by local Muslims and set the parameters for ahealthy relationship between the department and the Muslim community.The conference was attended by a fluctuating audience of eighty to 150individuals from the University of Cape Town and various Muslim communities.This provided an ideal opportunity for the emergence of a varietyof lively and critical ideas. Issues affecting Muslims living in South Africaalso generated a lot of discussion.The keynote guest speaker was Richard Martin, Arizona State University,Tucson, Arizona. The rest of the papers were presented by scholars fromSouth African universities who have been involved in the study of Islam andArabic. The following broad areas were covered: early Islamic history;Qur'anic hermeneutics in traditional and modem scholarship; revivalism;Islam in South Africa; and Muslim personal law in South Africa.The first session dealt with early Islam and featured two presentations.The first, Martin's paper on "Public Theology in Medieval Islam: The Roleof Kalam in Conflict Definition and Resolution," set the pace with aninteresting and innovative approach to the study of early theological disputes.In addition, he presented kalam disputes to illustrate how modem discussionsand debates on fundamentalism have produced a kind of public theologyinvolving both the media and academia in North America. He was followedby Abdul Kader I. Tayob, University of Cape Town, who dealt with themeaning and significance of the masjid as a sacred space as reflected in theQur'an and si'rah literature of the thirteenth hijri century.Two papers on Qur'anic hermeneutics made up the second session. A. K. ...
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Placier, Margaret L. "The Semantics of State Policy Making: The Case of “At Risk”." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 15, no. 4 (December 1993): 380–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/01623737015004380.
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Definitions of key policy terms are important elements in policy construction. Accordingly, the power to define such terms is a linguistic marker of relationships among players in the policy process. Combining a linguistic framework with the cultural framework of Marshall, Mitchell, and Wirt (1989), this article traces definition of the term at risk in the context of one state, Arizona. Researchers in the Department of Education used the definition process as an opportunity to enhance the department’s prestige and power in relation to other policy-making bodies.