Community Health Priorities

Community Health Priorities (CHP) is a project of the Northwest Health Foundation. Our goal is to engage people all over the state to articulate a vision of a healthier life for everyone, and then develop policies that help us achieve that vision. On this site you can participate in surveys, share feedback, read news stories about related issues, learn about grant opportunities for your neighborhood organizations, get more information on how to become involved or help mobilize your community and ensure that its voice will be heard. Join the conversation!

“Public Health Matters” Video Contest

Thanks to everyone who submitted a video for the “Public Health Matters” Video Contest! Winners of the contest will be announced soon. To watch all of the contest submissions, click here.

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From the Conversation

CHP Grant Helps Latinos Influence New Park in Odell, Ore.

CHP grants are provided to communities that want to take action to improve health. If you want to host community meetings to brainstorm ideas and develop a plan for change, a CHP grant could help support flyers, publicity, and refreshments. In ...Read more >

“Food Desert” Issue Gains Recognition Nationwide

The first time the Oregonian brought it up was back in 2008. Now the idea that “food deserts” are located in cities throughout the nation is getting wider recognition. In Columbus, Ohio, the Dispatch reports on the work of Randi Love, ...Read more >

Tobacco and Obesity Prevention: Now competing for limited funding?

In a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., and Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D.write that, at a time when health funding sources are focusing efforts and dollars on obesity prevention, smoking remains by far the most ...Read more >

Diabetes: What’s rice got to do with it?

A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes a direct connection between the consumption of white v. brown rice and the risk of developing diabetes. Those who eat white rice on a regular basis — five or more times a week — are ...Read more >

Public Health: “The causes of the causes of death”

In the past, we’ve sent out props to Dick Jackson, (Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA), and the current issue of Fast Company magazine offers another slew of quotations and observations from this great champion ...Read more >

Oregonians Speak:

Good Health: How Can we Make a Difference?

Bill Thorndike, President of Medford Fabrication and Chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board

Good Health: How Can we Make a Difference?: It’s critical that preventive health care becomes an important part of every Oregonian’s life. We’re spending $10 billion each year to fight chronic conditions like obesity, heart disease and diabetes Oregonians need to stop these diseases. ...Read more >

About The Project

How can we all achieve a healthy life? What will it take for all Oregonians to be able to live in environments that sustain us and promote our well-being — where we can all breathe clean air, drink pure water and eat nourishing food — and where it’s safe for each and every one of us to walk or ride a bike? What must we do for good preventive care to be available to everyone in all corners of the state?

Community Health Priorities (CHP) is a project of the Northwest Health Foundation, based on work completed in partnership with the Oregon Public Health Division and the Oregon Health Policy Commission. Our goal is to engage people all over the state to articulate a vision of a healthier life for everyone, and then develop policies that help us achieve that vision.

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