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Category Archive: Urban Issues
Oregon Legislators Discuss County Health Rankings
On February 18, Mary Lou Hennrich of Oregon’s Public Health Institute led a discussion for Oregon legislators about the recently released County Health Rankings, which compares Oregon counties against each other in various categories of health ...
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Blue Zones Vitality Project: Addressing Healthy Environments One Community at a Time
A recent article in Newsweek reports on the town of Albert Lea, Minn., the first American town to sign on to the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project—the brainchild of Dan Buettner, author of “The Blue Zones,” which looks at the health habits ...
Mout Hood and Tillamook Comm. Colleges Now Tobacco-Free
By Guest Author Katie Fidler
Congratulations to Mt. Hood Community College and Tillamook Bay Community College for making their campuses 100% tobacco-free! Both colleges implemented tobacco-free policies in January 2010; No tobacco products of ...
Northwest Health Foundation Urges “Yes” Vote on 66 and 67
Community Health Priorities - a project of the Northwest Health Foundation - explores environments, activities and policies that influence health and makes recommendations on those policies when it seems important to do so.
Right now it is ...
World Health Organization: Five preventable factors cause 25% of premature deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in a report released on October 27, 2009 that 25% of all premature deaths in the world are caused by five preventable factors:
- Poor childhood nutrition
- Unsafe sex
- Alcohol abuse
- Bad sanitation ...
“We’ve built America not for human beings, but for cars”
Here’s a shout out to Dick Jackson (Richard Joseph Jackson, MD. MPH, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health) who has produced a television program: “Public Space/Public Health: How the built environment impacts ...
Living near Greenspaces proven to positively influence health
There is new evidence that living near a ‘green space’ has health benefits. New research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health indicates that living near “green spaces” has tangible benefits to human health. The best ...
Kids Say the Darndest Things - And they know what they’re talking about
Community Health Priorities recently participated in OMSI’s “Crack the Case of Good Health,” where the CHP display helped start a conversation with kids about healthy and unhealthy neighborhoods. One of the goals of the effort was to get kids to ...
New Study Confirms Neighborhood Can Correlate to Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Although there’s been a lot of discussion around the concept of “healthy” neighborhoods, no multistate studies have actually compared the extent to which features of residential environments contribute to the incidence of type 2 diabetes ...
What are Healthy Corner Stores?
In looking for ways to combat both obesity and hunger (which are inter-related,some discussion has turned to the idea of creating healthier corner stores. Rather than an abundance of junk food, under such an initiative corner stores would be ...
Community Gardens Produce more than Produce
With the fruits of the Obama’s White House garden beginning to pour in (73 pounds of lettuce in one harvest!), it brings to mind the pleasures and health benefits of just-picked produce. Most of us are well-aware of the boost fresh fruits and ...
Public Health as Enabler of Food, Frolic and Social Capital
While some people associate government public health with onerous restrictions, it does seek to improve the lives of everyone. And every once in a while, health departments are shown to not only make our lives safer and healthier, but even more ...
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