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What’s your community health priority?
We know it’s hard, but if you had to choose just one issue to get additional funding, which would it be? The bottom line is that we’re trying to determine where you feel the greatest needs are right now. What is the most important public health issue in your community? ( ...
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CHP Grant Helps Latinos Influence New Park in Odell, Ore.
CHP grants are provided to communities that want to take action to improve health. If you want to host community meetings to brainstorm ideas and develop a plan for change, a CHP grant could help support flyers, publicity, and refreshments. In exchange, we ask that you document the meetings, tell us who attended, and share the results of the conversation. Here’s some very exciting news that we heard from Jonathan Graca, of Hood River Valley Residents Committee (HRVRC), a local land use ...
“Food Desert” Issue Gains Recognition Nationwide
The first time the Oregonian brought it up was back in 2008. Now the idea that “food deserts” are located in cities throughout the nation is getting wider recognition. In Columbus, Ohio, the Dispatch reports on the work of Randi Love, whose students at Ohio State’s College of Public Health studied the offerings at smaller markets in the city’s struggling neighborhoods, mapping food deserts, and comparing the distance to fast-food restaurants and larger grocery stores from each ...
Tobacco and Obesity Prevention: Now competing for limited funding?
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., and Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D.write that, at a time when health funding sources are focusing efforts and dollars on obesity prevention, smoking remains by far the most common cause of preventable death and disability in the U.S. “It is tempting,” they say “to believe that the battle is largely won and that we should move on to other pressing public health issues. But the prevalence of smoking in the United ...
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Portland Public Schools and Physical Education: Progress but not total victory
Thanks in large part to the hard work of the Coalition to Save Portland PE, particularly the indefatigable Mary Lou Hennrich, Portland Public Schools will not completely gut its physical education programs in spite of upcoming budget restraints. As Mary Lou Hennrich reported to PE advocates on July 20, the district established a “floor” for PE instructors in every elementary and middle school (0.5 PE Specialist in each building). “This is one of those ‘half full or half empty ...
Portland-area Health Advocates Rally to Prevent PE Cuts
One of Oregon’s great public health champions, Mary Lou Hennrich, explains it like this: “I hope you are aware of the impending disaster should Portland School Board decide to act on Superintendent Carole Smith’s proposal to cut ALL Portland District elementary and middle school PE teachers and with them all PE for about 30,000+ students.” Mary Lou emphasizes that, while this travesty will apply across the board, it will most powerfully affect those kids “whose parents don’t ...
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Diabetes: What’s rice got to do with it?
A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes a direct connection between the consumption of white v. brown rice and the risk of developing diabetes. Those who eat white rice on a regular basis — five or more times a week — are almost 20 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those who eat it less than once a month. Community Health Priorities focuses on systemic and policy influences on health - recognizing that communication at the individual level is not ...
Another link to obesity: Abuse
New research has just been published which shows that children of abused women are at increased risk of being obese. The study of 1,595 boys and girls showed that children whose mothers were victims of abuse were more likely to be obese by age 5 than children of mothers who didn’t experience such violence. The link between obesity and an abused mother was stronger in girls than in boys, and also among children whose mothers said they lived in unsafe neighborhoods. The authors of the ...
Public Health: “The causes of the causes of death”
In the past, we’ve sent out props to Dick Jackson, (Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA), and the current issue of Fast Company magazine offers another slew of quotations and observations from this great champion of health-oriented policy. In one vignette, Jackson recalls seeing a woman in her 70s walking along the side of the road in the summer heat, doubled over, presumably from osteoporosis, and thinks: “If she were to die before making it home, the ...
FIFA World Cup: How healthy is it?
As the world starts to tune into the FIFA World Cup, should we be concerned about the adverse affects of this sporting event on population health? First there was an outcry over the three largest sponsors of the event: Coca Cola McDonald’s Budweiser The World Cancer Research Fund has been outspoken in criticizing the billions of dollars that have been spent trying to get World Cup fans to consume even more sodas, beers and Big Bacs than they already do. Then, there was the stampede ...
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Nursing Policy: Is it a public health issue?
Northwest Health Foundation president Thomas Aschenbrener’s recent opinion article in the Oregonian generated varied responses both online, over the phone, and in person. Clearly the extent to which our nation enables aspiring nurses, and nursing faculty, to fulfill their goals is a health care policy issue. But is it a public health issue? After all, much of the work of public health departments, both at the state and local level, is conducted by nurses. How much is nursing shortage ...
Community Health Priorities Sponsors “Portland Acupuncture Project”
Community Health Priorities is a sponsor of artist Adam Kuby’s “Portland Acupuncture Project,” which places 35-foot acupuncture needles into the “skin” of Portland at carefully selected sites around town. Both CHP and the Acupuncture effort share a common viewpoint: That the health of a person, and the health of the community, are both highly influenced by a multitude of social, economic, and environmental factors. And in the case of people, most of those factors lie outside the doctor’s ...
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