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The Conversation is another connection point between Northwest Health Foundation and our community. Check in here to learn more about our work, and share your own views. You can add your comments to the entries posted, or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to post a blog entry of your own. Posts prior to 2012 were written for a NWHF project called “Community Health Priorities.”
To add or not to add?
To add or not to add? This is the question that Portland residents face this May when they will cast votes on Measure 26-151. The decision each voter will make should be a well–informed decision based on the best available evidence. At least, that’s how it should work in theory. There is a lot of science out there and we could not expect Portland residents voting in May to sift through the thousands of scientific articles that have been published over the last sixty years. So ...
Nichole Maher: Community Outreach Report
As someone who grew up in a very rural community in Lincoln County, Oregon, I feel that I have a real understanding of how each location in our region is geographically and culturally unique. One thing my experience taught me is that I have so much to learn from our geographically diverse communities. As part of my first year as Northwest Health Foundation president, I’ve made it a priority to visit other parts of our region and to hear from local residents how their communities ...
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What do driver’s licenses have to do with healthy food?
I first heard this provocative question during a food systems summit organized by the Northwest Regional Convergence Partnership - a collaboration that includes the Northwest Health Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust and Kaiser Permanente Northwest. Nearly 100 partners from around Oregon and SW Washington – representing food production, distribution, retail, public health, planning, and tribal health authorities – gathered in Salem on this past November to achieve three ...
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CCO Conference Highlights Health Transformation
I spent the last two days at CCO Oregon’s “Transforming Care 2013” conference where I was excited to learn how communities throughout the state are working to achieve real integration between health and health care. It was an encouraging event, which included people who are all working to achieve the place where revenue is maximized when we keep people well and not when we treat more disease. While many of the 15 new CCOs—all of which are less than six months old—are ...
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Will Oregon Allocate Tobacco Settlement Money to Tobacco Prevention in 2013?
Back in the 1990s, states began to realize that smoking was not only bad for people’s health, it was also bad for fiscal health. So large was the impact of tobacco use on state coffers that attorneys general from more than half the states filed lawsuits in federal court against tobacco companies. The intent was to secure funds from cigarette companies to reimburse the states for the cost of treating smoking-related health problems. Oregon alone incurred over $1 billion in direct ...
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Report from the field: Jackson County Addresses Teen Pregnancy
By Joanne Noone In Jackson County in southern Oregon, the Latina teen pregnancy rates for 2008 and 2009 were double those for non-Hispanics. As part of a three-year Northwest Health Foundation Community-Based Participatory research (CBPR) grant, the Jackson County Latina Health Coalition is completing community assessments, including a “Photovoice” effort by local Latino youth. Photovoice is a photography and storytelling technique that gives people an opportunity to share ...
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Tricia Tillman: “Social Determinants of Health” and Equity Not Always Aligned
Health advocates tend to agree that addressing the social determinants of health can be an effective path to health equity. Public investments in affordable housing, education, transportation, and economic justice can reduce disparities by race, ethnicity, and income. In fact the landmark document on the social determinants of health, by Sir Michael Marmot and published by the World Health Organisation is titled “Health equity through action on the social determinants of ...
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Can Oregon Learn Health Transformation from Alaska?
Three NWHF staff - president Nichole Maher, program officer Alejandro Queral and I - have just returned from a three-day visit to Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization serving nearly 60,000 people living in Anchorage and 60 rural villages. Southcentral employs more than 1,400 people in some 65 programs, and its vision is a Native Community that enjoys physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness. It’s mission is to work together ...
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