Category Archive: Environmental Health
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 ...
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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 ...
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, ...
What a NWHF Small Grant Can Do - To Educate Oregonians about Toxics
The following is a report from Lisa Arkin, Executive Director, Oregon Toxics Alliance, about a small community engagement grant received in 2011:
Oregon Toxics Alliance, based in Eugene, is educating thousands of Oregonians by way of a film & ...
Multnomah County Considers Ban on BPA
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a synthetic hormone that is widely used to make hard plastic and epoxy resin. BPA makes plastic clear and rigid in water bottles, baby bottles and reusable food containers, and is also used in the lacquer that lines food ...
Oregon Not Alone in Confronting Rising Hookah Use
You may have heard that the Oregon House voted to change the definition of “smoke shop” in the Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act, to address a loophole that has allowed hookah bars to proliferate. Now, in what has been called “the newest front in ...
What’s Your Domestic Health Policy?
By Craig Mosbaek, CHP Contributing Writer
When advocating for policies that promote health, we usually think of reaching out to the elected officials in state legislatures and city or county commissions. However, policies can be implemented by ...
2011 Youth Photo Contest Winners Announced
More than one hundred entries in the 2011 Community Health Priorities public health photo contest have provided everyone involved with an emboldened faith in today’s youth. And youth participation wasn’t limited to submitting photos - they also ...
What About American Bands Accepting Tobacco Sponsorship Overseas?
Tickets have been sold, billboards placed, and raffles and online contests held — all by a tobacco company promoting Maroon 5’s upcoming show in Indonesia. Thousands of kids have signed onto the tobacco company’s email list hoping to win ...
OEC: A Healthy Environment Often Means Environmental Health
The Community Health Priorities project believes that ensuring a healthy environment is at least as important to good health as medical insurance.
When we talk about “healthy environments,” we’re referring to places people can walk safely ...
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 ...
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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