Michigan's Women, Infants & Children program, providing supplemental nutrition, breastfeeding information, and other resources for healthy mothers & babies.
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If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
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Information about the health care programs available through Medicaid and how to qualify.
Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
A federal program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival.
Universal caseload, or task-based processing, is a different way of handling public assistance cases.
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Information about the Michigan law that requires certain information be made available to a woman who is seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
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MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Environmental Health Bureau (EHB) uses the best available science to reduce, eliminate, or prevent harm from environmental, chemical, and physical hazards.
Resources and information to assist in assuring firearm safety for families in the state of Michigan.
The Division of Victim Services (DVS) provides a voice advocating for and responding to all victims of crime in Michigan. Learn more about DVS-funded programs and services, including Michigan’s 24/7, free, confidential, and anonymous domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines.
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Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
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September 19, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 19, 2013
LANSING – High blood pressure is a serious public health concern for many Americans, especially Michigan residents. To address this, the national Million Hearts® campaign is challenging clinicians, practices, and health systems that provide primary care and have achieved hypertension control rates greater than 70 percent to enter to become the 2013 Hypertension Control Champions. The deadline to enter is September 30.
The latest data show that nearly 1 in 3 American adults, or 67 million, have high blood pressure. More than half of those with high blood pressure, roughly 36 million, don’t have it under control, even though many have insurance, are being treated with medicine, and have seen a doctor at least twice in the past year. According to the 2011 Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, an estimated 34.2 percent of Michigan adults reported ever being told by a doctor that they had high blood pressure. Furthermore, 76.5 percent of Michigan adults with high blood pressure were currently taking medications for their high blood pressure.
In 2012, the national Million Hearts® campaign recognized Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Ellsworth Medical Clinic in Wisconsin as Hypertension Control Champions for their success in achieving greater than 80 percent control among their patient populations with high blood pressure. The Michigan Department of Community Health is encouraging public or private health care clinicians, medical practices and health systems that have demonstrated exceptional achievements in working with their patients to control hypertension to apply for this distinction.
Million Hearts® is working to improve blood pressure control by encouraging proven effective clinical approaches, such as focusing on blood pressure control with every patient at every visit; using health information technology, including registries and automatic alerts, to its fullest potential; and integrating team-based approaches to care, as well as through community approaches, such as strengthening policies to reduce smoking and improving nutrition by promoting foods lower in sodium.
For more information about the Million Hearts Hypertension Challenge or to enter your practice or system, visit www.mhhypertensionchallenge.com.
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