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Category Archive: Disparities
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 ...
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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 ...
Mout Hood and Tillamook Comm. Colleges Now Tobacco-Free
By Guest Author Katie Fidler
Congratulations to Mt. Hood Community College and Tillamook Bay Community College for making their campuses 100% tobacco-free! Both colleges implemented tobacco-free policies in January 2010; No tobacco products of ...
Kaiser Family Foundation Study: Media Use Way Up by Children and Teens
With technology allowing continuous media access for kids, the amount of time youth spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minorities. According to a study just released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 8-18 ...
“There’s a growing recognition nationally that the environment is impacting the choices we make.”
This quote comes from Kate Wells, outreach director for the Heart Institute of the Cascades, and project director for Kids@Heart, a regional collaboration between advocates in central Oregon working to achieve environments more conducive for ...
Too Fat to Fight: Is Obesity a National Security Issue
Every once in a while, health experts and advocates chime in that our growing obesity epidemic is not just a public health issue – it’s also an issue of national security.
One of the early voices in this argument was Professor Carlos Crespo, ...
Central Valley, CA: Nation’s most ironically unhealthy region
California’s Central Valley is the most productive food producing region in the U.S., raising half of the nation’s entire crop of fruits and vegetables, and serving as our largest dairy region.
Ironically, it’s also one of the poorest areas ...
New Mammogram Guidelines – Lost public health opportunity?
On Monday, November 16, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a report modifying previous recommendations for breast cancer screening, now stating that women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women ...
World Health Organization: Five preventable factors cause 25% of premature deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in a report released on October 27, 2009 that 25% of all premature deaths in the world are caused by five preventable factors:
- Poor childhood nutrition
- Unsafe sex
- Alcohol abuse
- Bad sanitation ...
Living near Greenspaces proven to positively influence health
There is new evidence that living near a ‘green space’ has health benefits. New research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health indicates that living near “green spaces” has tangible benefits to human health. The best ...
New Study Confirms Neighborhood Can Correlate to Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Although there’s been a lot of discussion around the concept of “healthy” neighborhoods, no multistate studies have actually compared the extent to which features of residential environments contribute to the incidence of type 2 diabetes ...
Oregon Gets “C” for Expanding Economic Opportunity
BY DAVID ROSENFELD – Special Correspondent to Community Health Priorities
Oregonians are struggling to save money, buy their own homes and afford health insurance, according to a bleak picture presented by the Corporation for Enterprise ...
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