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Category Archive: Air and Water Quality
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 ...
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“We’ve built America not for human beings, but for cars”
Here’s a shout out to Dick Jackson (Richard Joseph Jackson, MD. MPH, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health) who has produced a television program: “Public Space/Public Health: How the built environment impacts ...
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 ...
Kids Say the Darndest Things - And they know what they’re talking about
Community Health Priorities recently participated in OMSI’s “Crack the Case of Good Health,” where the CHP display helped start a conversation with kids about healthy and unhealthy neighborhoods. One of the goals of the effort was to get kids to ...
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 ...
Coos County Non-Profit Cushions Blow to Public Health
Public health agencies across the state could learn something from the bootstrap efforts in Coos County. BY DAVID ROSENFELD – Special Correspondent to Community Health Priorities These days, county public health agencies throughout Oregon ...
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 ...
Upstream Public Health Releases Health Impact Assessment for Transportation Policy
Late in 2008, Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski presented his “Jobs and Transportation Act of 2009” to the Oregon House and Senate Transportation Committees. The Governor’s office stated that the plan would create thousands of jobs, establish ...
Student Photo Contest: Submit Entries Here!
As part of National Public Health Week (April 6-12), Community Health Priorities, a project of the Northwest Health Foundation, is pleased to sponsor the 2009 Oregon Student Photo Contest! With this photo contest, we are looking at different ...
200,000 acres of wilderness protection in Oregon: Good for our health?
On January 6, 2009, the US Senate approved a bill to protect to more than 200,000 acres of land in Oregon, along with two million additional acres nationwide. According to the Oregonian, Ron Wyden worked for more than four years to “draft the ...
Smoking Ban Takes Effect 1/1/09: Oregon can look forward to more positive health outcomes
As Oregon embarks on its new era of smoke-free workplaces everywhere, including bars and nightclubs, residents can look forward to overall improvements in health indicators. A recent news story from the city of Pueblo, Colorado shows a dramatic ...
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