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Category Archive: Public Health
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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 ...
“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, ...
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 ...
FIFA World Cup: How healthy is it?
As the world starts to tune into the FIFA World Cup, should we be concerned about the adverse affects of this sporting event on population health?
First there was an outcry over the three largest sponsors of the event:
Coca ...
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 ...
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 ...
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