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Category Archive: Rural Health
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Central Valley, CA: Nation’s most ironically unhealthy region
California’s Central Valley is the most productive food producing region in the U.S., raising half of the nation’s entire crop of fruits and vegetables, and serving as our largest dairy region.
Ironically, it’s also one of the poorest areas ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oregon Gets “C” for Expanding Economic Opportunity
BY DAVID ROSENFELD – Special Correspondent to Community Health Priorities
Oregonians are struggling to save money, buy their own homes and afford health insurance, according to a bleak picture presented by the Corporation for Enterprise ...
Farm to School Bill Failed During Budget Crisis - Will Not Go Away
As students and teachers around Oregon return from summer vacation and ask themselves what happened to Farm to School, it’s important that they know how hard people worked for the statewide bill and why it failed.
A bill that would have ...
Coos County Non-Profit Cushions Blow to Public Health
Public health agencies across the state could learn something from the bootstrap efforts in Coos County.
BY DAVID ROSENFELD – Special Correspondent to Community Health Priorities
These days, county public health agencies throughout Oregon ...
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