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Category Archive: Urban Issues
“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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
Nike Employee Grant Fund Launched
The Nike Employee Grant Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation has been launched today to support nonprofit organizations or schools in Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, Yamhill, and Columbia counties in Oregon and Clark County in southwest ...
85 Youth from All Over Oregon Use Camera to Show What Health Means to Them
- Scio
- Hood River
- La Grande
- Tillamook
- Lincoln City
- The Dalles
- St. Helens
- Clackamas
These are just some of the towns from which we received entries in this year’s photo contest. It was another success as we received 85 photos from ...
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What a CHP Grant Can Do - For an Immigrant Community in Portland
According to Elizabeth Fussell, Development Director, at the VOZ Workers Rights Education Project, “our community conversations went extremely well! We had a total of 87 day laborers participate, of which 40 attended all three of the films and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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