Subscribe to the RSS feed.
What's RSS?
The Conversation
Category Archive: Did You Know?
Nielson Report: Kids’ TV use at an 8-year high - 2-5 year olds now watch 32 hours of TV per week
New data from television monitoring group Nielsen indicates that each week children on average spend more than 28 hours per week watching TV, representing an eight-year high for television viewing among children. Based on an analysis of live and ...
|
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 ...
Add car repair and new front porch to the true costs of smoking
Cancer, emphysema, stroke, forest fires, and now this:
From the Oregonian: 5/25/09:
“Man drops cigarette, crashes car”
Christopher Clawson dropped his cigarette in his lap Sunday evening while driving his car south on 206th Avenue in ...
New research shows 34% of the recent increase in Oregon’s health expenses is related to obesity.
The percent of Oregonians who are obese doubled from 1990-2005; during roughly the same period, health care spending in our state rose 8% per year. Obesity is a health problem, most of us are aware of that. But it’s also an economic problem, ...
Stimulus Bill to Include Investment in Public Health
Did you know that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1), commonly referred to as the economic stimulus bill, contains some important public health funding?
The bill includes $3 billion for public health and prevention that ...
Congressman Blumenauer (and anyone else): Why is health important?
It can be interesting to observe how even some of our most progressive and intelligent politicians seem to gloss over the importance of health to our society.
At the Portland City Club on December 5, 2008, Congressman Earl Blumenauer presented ...
Slideshow - What is Public Health?
Take a look at the first in an ongoing series of slideshows presenting various elements of public health. This initial effort is entitled “What is Public Health.” Feel free to use this, or any future presentations, if you have an audience that ...Win $500 for your favorite nonprofit - Contest ends at midight on New Years Eve!
The Community Health Priorities website would not be the same without your comments. So we’re launching a program this December to reward those who post a comment about any of the “conversation” items, news stories, or polls on this ...
Report finds most states - including Oregon - inadequately spending tobacco settlement funds
Ten years after the after the November 1998 state tobacco settlement, Oregon is one of many states breaking promises to its citizens and their kids, a new report says.
At the time of the 1998 tobacco settlement, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
CDC reports healthiest, unhealthiest cities
On November 18, the Associated Press published a story announcing that the Centers of Disease Control as named Burlington, Vermont the “healthiest city in America.” Hundreds of newspapers and television stations picked up and ran with the ...
Is Google better than the CDC at tracking the flu?
On its Flu Trends website, Google says “we’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than ...
RWJ Foundation Releases Report “Charting Nursing’s Future”
Did you know that:
In 1980 there were around 2,200 public health workers for every million Americans, while the number now is less than 1,600.
Twenty-five percent of the professional public health workforce is made up of nurses.
The average ...
Next Page
Viewing page 1 of 2.
