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Category Archive: Policies and Laws
Things dealing with legislation.
“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 ...
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 ...
Kaiser National Essay Contest Winner: Corn Subsidies at Root of Obesity Epidemic
Each year, Kaiseredu.org holds a student essay contest covering health and health care. This year, the assignment was: “It is January 2015. What do you see as the major health policy challenges still facing the nation? Please identify the top two ...
Latest National Security Threat: Obesity
Although we’ve been reporting on this issue for a long time, today retired U.S. Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili and retired U.S. Army Gen. Hugh Shelton (both former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) have now declared obesity in the U.S. ...
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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