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The Conversation is the connection 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.”
Public Health Uses of Data from Electronic Health Records
Are public health departments ready for the deluge of data soon to come from electronic health records (EHRs)? Maybe not, according to a recent article in the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Leslie Lenert and David N. Sundwall of the University of Utah School of Medicine write about the value of EHRs in “Public Health Surveillance and Meaningful Use Regulations: A Crisis of Opportunity.” With financial incentives from the federal government, EHRs are being implemented by ...
Hunger and Obesity: Two Sides of the Malnutrition Coin
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” - Wendell Berry This January, Laurie Trieger, executive director of the Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth (LCHAY) and I hosted a session at the 2012 Food Security Summit in Corvallis exploring the root causes of hunger and obesity. Obesity and hunger are very much linked and we hope to eventually be able to identify key policy ...
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What Equity Means to Me – This February
This February, during African American History Month, I wonder what non-African Americans (98% of Oregon and 96% of Portland) will reflect on and do as part of this recognition. At a time when there is still much intolerance, I am now hearing from more people who want to promote better conversations about our increasingly multicultural society. What do we value? Where do we point when we want examples of an equitable society? What does it look like when we get to equity? When ...
NWHF Introduces Points of View: Perspectives on Equity
Northwest Health Foundation is pleased to launch “Points of View,” an occasional series of communications around important topics that extend across all of our work. The first edition of Points of View focuses on the efforts of the foundation and its partners to achieve health equity in the regions we serve. One of the foundation’s guiding principles is that “Deliberate strategies are required in order to effectively overcome health inequities.” Embedded in this principle is ...
The Time is Now to Think about Coordinated Care Organizations
Next month (February 2012), the Oregon version of health care reform, the coordinated care organization (CCO), will be acted on by our Legislature. They are now waiting for the report and recommendations from the Health Policy Board in response to the direction SB 3650. I have attended the conversations about CCO’s for the past several months and here are my thoughts: First, the idea of creating a health care system is remarkable in its vision. I say BRAVO to the forward ...
Online Food Marketing to Children: Ethical? Legal?
Increasing concerns about chronic diseases such as diabetes and risk factors such as obesity have forced society to take a critical look at how the food industry – specifically manufacturers of processed foods – markets its products to consumers. Children and adolescents are specific demographics targeted by advertisers as their purchasing influence nears $1 trillion per year. As the pie continues to grow, marketers are targeting teenagers through digital media that are based ...
What’s your community health priority?
This is post we created back in 2008. Since that time it received over 100 responses. Click through them to see what our grantees, partners, and colleagues said when we asked: What’s your community health priority? We know it’s hard, but if you had to choose just one issue to get additional funding, which would it be? The bottom line is that we’re trying to determine where you feel the greatest needs are right now. What is the most important public health issue in your community? ...
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Doctors Want to Address Social Factors Affecting Health
A recent survey of doctors finds that they are well-aware of the impact of social needs on their patients’ health. The survey of 1,000 primary care physicians and pediatricians was conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. More than 4 in 5 of the surveyed doctors agree that unmet social needs are directly leading to worse health and that patients’ social needs are as important to address as their medical conditions. However, 80% of these ...
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