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Category Archive: Rural Health

CHP Grant Helps Latinos Influence New Park in Odell, Ore.

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 ...

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Portland Public Schools and Physical Education: Progress but not total victory

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. ...

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Nursing Policy: Is it a public health issue?

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 ...

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Photo Contest Winners Announced

Photo Contest Winners Announced On Tuesday night, April 6, in a jam-packed screening room at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon, the top three winners of the 2010 Public Health Photo Contest were announced and presented with their cash awards. First place and $300 was ...

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85 Youth from All Over Oregon Use Camera to Show What Health Means to Them

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

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 ...

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What a CHP Grant Can Do - In Eugene

What a CHP Grant Can Do - In Eugene Community Health Priorities has small grants available for people interested in taking the first steps to making their communities healthier for everyone. What does this mean? What does this entail? What does this look like? The answer is ...

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Oregon Legislators Discuss County Health Rankings

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

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 ...

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Mout Hood and Tillamook Comm. Colleges Now Tobacco-Free

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 ...

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“There’s a growing recognition nationally that the environment is impacting the choices we make.”

“There’s a growing recognition nationally that the environment is impacting the choices we make.” This quote comes from Kate Wells, outreach director for the Heart Institute of the Cascades, and project director for Kids@Heart, a regional collaboration between advocates in central Oregon working to achieve environments more conducive for ...

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Northwest Health Foundation Urges “Yes” Vote on 66 and 67

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 ...

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