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Northwest Health Foundation releases new CHP public opinion poll
Northwest Health Foundation, through its Community Health Priorities Project, has just released new public opinion research conducted by Davis Hibbitts Midghall, revealing areas where Oregonians want health dollars spent.
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Is a Soda Tax Paternalism? Victim Blaming?
The CHP Twitter feed recently received a message from @erinashmiller, who tweeted that “taxing junk food violates horizontal & vertical equity, also paternalistic.”
The tweet included a link to an article she wrote on agriculture policy ...
Citizens United v. FEC: Is it a public health issue?
Is it a simple defense of free speech as protected by the first amendment, or an egregious example of right-wing judicial activism?
While that may be one way of framing the recent Supreme Court ruling “Citizens United v. Federal Election ...
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 ...
Cell Phones - Public Health Issue?
A recent piece in GQ magazine explores a difficult issue for many Americans – many earthlings in fact – to grapple with: the health hazards of cell phones.
To suggest that cell phones pose serious and real health threats to human health, or ...
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 ...
Public Health Not Held to “Clinical Trial” Standards of Medicine, NY Doc Writes
Public Health Not Held to Same “Clinical Trial” Standards as Medicine, NY Doc Writes
A retired pediatrician, in a recent letter to the New York Times about the city’s new salt recommendations, brings up an interesting point.
Before the ...
PSU Study: Tobacco Flavorants are Sweeter than Candy!
Portland State University professor Jim Pankow, has recently published research about flavorants in smokeless tobacco, pointing out, in essence that tobacco companies are using extremely high levels of candy-like flavors to attract young people ...
Kaiser Family Foundation Study: Media Use Way Up by Children and Teens
With technology allowing continuous media access for kids, the amount of time youth spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minorities. According to a study just released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 8-18 ...
New York City Looks to Salt in Effort to Save Lives
New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg has just released a plan to encourage food manufacturers and restaurant chains across the country to curtail the amount of salt in their products.
It won’t affect cafés selling salt bagels.
It won’t affect ...
“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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