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CDC Director Tom Frieden: Tobacco Control Needs to be Comprehensive
Last night, at the Association of Health Care Journalists National Conference in Chicago, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director, Director Thomas R. Frieden, presented his thoughts on how states can, and must use of ...
Study: Soda tax would need to be high to be effective
According to a study published online in Health Affairs on April 7, 2010, small taxes on soda do little to reduce soft drink consumption or prevent childhood obesity, but larger levies probably would.
“Small taxes will not prevent obesity,” ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Children’s Oral Health Funding available in Benton, Douglas, Lane, and Linn Counties
Our friends at the Oregon Community Foundation asked us to share with CHP readers a new funding opportunity for Benton, Douglas, Lane, and Linn Counties. Dental disease is an issue that affects many children in Oregon, and often times, could ...
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 ...
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 ...
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