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!

Highlights

From the Conversation

Take our survey to win a Powell’s Books gift card

Can you spare 5-10 minutes to complete a short survey so we can improve the Community Health Priorities website – and, we hope, help Oregon become a healthier place to live? After you’ve completed the survey you can enter to win a $50 gift ...Read more >

Public Health as Enabler of Food, Frolic and Social Capital

While some people associate government public health with onerous restrictions, it does seek to improve the lives of everyone. And every once in a while, health departments are shown to not only make our lives safer and healthier, but even more ...Read more >

Despite Title IX, Boy-Girl Disparities Still Exist in Sports

This week, a series of articles in the New York Times explored the fact that girls in urban areas participate in sports significantly less than boys (but in many suburbs, girls play sports at rates nearly equal to boys). “Girls in cities from ...Read more >

House Subcommittee Approves $2.3 Million Health Investment in Breakfast

As the Oregonian reports, a House Ways and Means subcommittee approved a proposal to eliminate the cost of school breakfast for kids who qualify. Currently, kids in the qualifying income bracket pay 30¢ for breakfast and 40¢ lunch. Did you ...Read more >

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 ...Read more >

Oregonians Speak:

Tobacco’s True Cost on Good Health

Phillip Houk, Mayor, Pendleton

Tobacco’s True Cost on Good Health: Role models play a big part in the behavior of young people. When someone you look up to is using tobacco, chances are you will too. In 2005, I helped pass an ordinance in Pendleton that prohibited free public tobacco sampling. For our community, ...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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