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Category Archive: Education
Tobacco and Obesity Prevention: Now competing for limited funding?
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., and Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D.write that, at a time when health funding sources are focusing efforts and dollars on obesity prevention, smoking remains by far the ...
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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. ...
Portland-area Health Advocates Rally to Prevent PE Cuts
One of Oregon’s great public health champions, Mary Lou Hennrich, explains it like this:
“I hope you are aware of the impending disaster should Portland School Board decide to act on Superintendent Carole Smith’s proposal to cut ALL ...
Diabetes: What’s rice got to do with it?
A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes a direct connection between the consumption of white v. brown rice and the risk of developing diabetes.
Those who eat white rice on a regular basis — five or more times a week — are ...
Another link to obesity: Abuse
New research has just been published which shows that children of abused women are at increased risk of being obese.
The study of 1,595 boys and girls showed that children whose mothers were victims of abuse were more likely to be obese by age 5 ...
Public Health: “The causes of the causes of death”
In the past, we’ve sent out props to Dick Jackson, (Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA), and the current issue of Fast Company magazine offers another slew of quotations and observations from this great champion ...
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 ...
What a CHP Grant can do – For Latina Women in Jackson County
Latina Women in the United States have worse birth outcomes than their non-Latina counterparts.
Latina teens living in the United States get pregnant twice as often as the national average.
Second-generation Latina women have less healthy ...
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 ...
Health Care Reform 2010: Where is the prevention?
During the lead up to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, many health advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that true disease prevention would make it into this law.
Were these efforts ...
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.
Among the ...
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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