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Category Archive: Polls
What’s your community health priority?
We know it’s hard, but if you had to choose just one issue to get additional funding, which would it be? The bottom line is that we’re trying to determine where you feel the greatest needs are right now. What is the most important public health ...
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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.
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 ...
Poll: What’s your view on a soda tax?
As momentum builds nationally for a tax on soda (or “sugar-sweetened beverages”), there are various points of view on the issue. What’s yours? If you don’t see a response that comes close to your view, please post a comment. Soda Tax: Which is ...Healthy Communities Survey for OMSI Visitors - or anyone else!
Thanks for visiting us at OMSI. Please share your thoughts on how to improve the health of your community here! Thank ...Poll reveals broad support among Oregon public for tobacco tax
All across the state, Oregonians show broad support for a 60-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes. This is according to a poll conducted by Davis Hibbitts Midghall Inc., commissioned by the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon (TOFCO), and released to ...
New York Times Editorial: Yes on Soda Tax
A New York Times editorial from June 3, 2009, concluded by saying: “All consumers — not just those lucky enough to live near farms or large grocery stores — should be able to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at affordable prices. While we ...
Looking Elsewhere at the Menu Labeling Debate
When many people think of Tennessee, they think of the Deep South and the stereotypes that come with it, including warm hospitality and delicious (read: fattening) southern food. Southerners love to eat - isn’t that the truth?
Did you know ...
The Best Tobacco Tax Yet
The Oregon Legislature is now considering a 60-cent tobacco tax on cigarettes to raise money for tobacco prevention and other public health programs. According to the Oregonian, state representative Mitch Greenlick believes lawmakers will ...Burgerville wants to sell alcohol – good or bad for our health?
Burgerville officials have applied for a beer and wine license at the new Salmon Creek restaurant in Vancouver, Washington, with the ultimate intention of selling these beverages at all of the the chain’s 39 stores around the Northwest.
A KGW ...
Playgrounds: Are they public health?
This past summer, the city of Brookings, Oregon received notification that they would receive nearly $50,000 from the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation to replace current worn and broken playground equipment at Brookings’ Easy Manor ...
Plastics and Human Health: Concerned?
The recent Oregon Public Health Association conference featured an excellent (and unfortunately very sobering) presentation about plastics and human health given by a local member of the Oregon chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. The ...
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