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Category Archive: Polls
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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Michael Pollan’s Open Letter to the next “Farmer in Chief”
In the October 12 New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan has written an open letter to our next “Farmer in Chief,” AKA President of the United States.
Calling for a new, higher, prioritization of food policy here in the US, Pollan writes, ...
Public School Funding: Public health issue?
Ever since the publication of Dan Beauchamp’s important essay, it has been well accepted that social justice and equality are important forces behind public health. The same could be said about public education.
According to a 2004 poll ...
37,000 jobs lost in Oregon due to trade with China: Is it a public health issue?
According to a DC-based Policy Institute study (published in the Portland Business Journal), 37,000 Oregon jobs have been lost due to trade with China. More than half the jobs paid above-average wages. During that period, the U.S. trade deficit ...
Poll - Do You think Violence is a Public Health Issue?
As C. Everett Koop has written in the Foreward to Violence in America: A Public Health Approach (Rosenberg and Fenley, 1991), “Over the years we have tacitly and, I believe, mistakenly agreed that violence was the exclusive province of the ...Poll - Treatment or Prevention?
Emphasis in the existing health care system should be changed from curing and treating disease to preventing/delaying the onset of disease and ensuring wellness ( ...
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