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Category Archive: Education
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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Oregon Legislators Discuss County Health Rankings
On February 18, Mary Lou Hennrich of Oregon’s Public Health Institute led a discussion for Oregon legislators about the recently released County Health Rankings, which compares Oregon counties against each other in various categories of health ...
Blue Zones Vitality Project: Addressing Healthy Environments One Community at a Time
A recent article in Newsweek reports on the town of Albert Lea, Minn., the first American town to sign on to the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project—the brainchild of Dan Buettner, author of “The Blue Zones,” which looks at the health habits ...
Abstinence-Only Education Proven Effective
It has been called the first-ever study demonstrating the effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education. A study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of has found that found that abstinence-only sex education helped to ...
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 ...
Northwest Health Foundation Urges “Yes” Vote on 66 and 67
Community Health Priorities - a project of the Northwest Health Foundation - explores environments, activities and policies that influence health and makes recommendations on those policies when it seems important to do so. Right now it is ...
New York City Soda Campaign: Gross? Yes - Controversial? Yes - Effective?
New York City is taking a proactive, outspoken role in its public health communications and is boldly developing public communications campaigns around nutrition and diet. The current campaign shows disgusting, unadulterated, gelatinous fat ...
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 ...
Nielson Report: Kids’ TV use at an 8-year high - 2-5 year olds now watch 32 hours of TV per week
New data from television monitoring group Nielsen indicates that each week children on average spend more than 28 hours per week watching TV, representing an eight-year high for television viewing among children. Based on an analysis of live and ...
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