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PDF Community Health Priorities: A Summary of the Project

This is a short summary of the project in a printable format.

PDF Progress Report to the Community (Summer 07)

This report gives a timeline of the project, a summary of our initial polling research and community engagement, and how you can get invovled.

PDF Summary Report: Public Engagement Efforts in Oregon (Fall 06)

Community Health Priorities began with a look at past public engagement efforts in Oregon. This report presents an executive summary of some of the findings of this research.

PDF Past Processes: Lessons Learned from Key Informant Interviews

Members of the Community Health Priorities project team interviewed more than 30 leaders in public health, government, and business to learn more about major successes and failures in public health and public engagement processes in Oregon. This document summarizes the findings from these interviews.

PDF Useful Data Sources

Prioritizing the areas of focus for public health interventions requires extensive, accurate, and current data. Follow this link for data sources which present a picture of the current state of the health of Oregon’s population.

In Oregon, tobacco causes five times as many more deaths than motor vehicle accidents, suicide, AIDS, and homicide combined..
Public health programs in the U.S. have reduced the percentage of lead-poisoned children by one-half during the 1990’s.