Category Archive: Transportation
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 ...
What People in Oregon Said About Food Access - on “Think Out Loud”
We’ve been discussing the issue of food deserts and how access to food affects health for some time now. Yesterday, Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud program covered the issue, which was accompanied by a lively online discussion. When ...
Tricyling Portland Supplies - Is it a health issue?
When the City of Portland announced that all office supplies would be delivered by cargo tricycles, the blogosphere went bonkers.
Many howled that the ecological impact is basically equivalent of a cleaning the Willamette River with a droplet of ...
Now Cooking: “Bite Size: The Movie”
I can’t remember a post-lunch afternoon meeting where I’ve felt as much energy as I did the other day, when I met with two young men who are in early stages of producing and directing a film about childhood obesity, called “Bite ...
New Study: Neighborhood walkability helps mental health as well as physical health
Plenty of research is available to show us that neighborhood “walkability” has a connection to physical health, measured by air quality, and even residents’ body mass index.
But a new study shows that aggregated mental health also rises ...
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OHSU Study: Portland Bicycle Environment Dangerous
People in Portland like to bike.
While the national bicycle commuter “mode share” was of 0.5%, in 2008, in Portland, that number is was 6.4% according to the US Census Bureau. That’s one of the highest rates in the nation.
While bicycle ...
Public Health: “The causes of the causes of death”
In the past, we’ve sent out props to Dick Jackson, (Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA), and the current issue of Fast Company magazine offers another slew of quotations and observations from this great champion ...
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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Public Health Investment Fund: Enlightened Policy or “Slush Fund for Pork Barrel Projects”?
Right now, Congress is considering legislation that would allocate as much as $10 billion for a “prevention and public health investment fund,” which would be earmarked for infrastructure projects such as bike paths, sidewalks, farmers ...
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