Category Archive: Environmental Health
CDC Director Tom Frieden: Tobacco Control Needs to be Comprehensive
Last night, at the Association of Health Care Journalists National Conference in Chicago, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director, Director Thomas R. Frieden, presented his thoughts on how states can, and must use of ...
Photo Contest Winners Announced
On Tuesday night, April 6, in a jam-packed screening room at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon, the top three winners of the 2010 Public Health Photo Contest were announced and presented with their cash awards.
First place and $300 was ...
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Citizens United v. FEC: Is it a public health issue?
Is it a simple defense of free speech as protected by the first amendment, or an egregious example of right-wing judicial activism?
While that may be one way of framing the recent Supreme Court ruling “Citizens United v. Federal Election ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Living near Greenspaces proven to positively influence health
There is new evidence that living near a ‘green space’ has health benefits. New research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health indicates that living near “green spaces” has tangible benefits to human health. The best ...
Kids Say the Darndest Things - And they know what they’re talking about
Community Health Priorities recently participated in OMSI’s “Crack the Case of Good Health,” where the CHP display helped start a conversation with kids about healthy and unhealthy neighborhoods. One of the goals of the effort was to get kids to ...
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 ...
Coos County Non-Profit Cushions Blow to Public Health
Public health agencies across the state could learn something from the bootstrap efforts in Coos County.
BY DAVID ROSENFELD – Special Correspondent to Community Health Priorities
These days, county public health agencies throughout Oregon ...
Poll reveals broad support among Oregon public for tobacco tax
All across the state, Oregonians show broad support for a 60-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes. This is according to a poll conducted by Davis Hibbitts Midghall Inc., commissioned by the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon (TOFCO), and released to ...
Add car repair and new front porch to the true costs of smoking
Cancer, emphysema, stroke, forest fires, and now this:
From the Oregonian: 5/25/09:
“Man drops cigarette, crashes car”
Christopher Clawson dropped his cigarette in his lap Sunday evening while driving his car south on 206th Avenue in ...
Upstream Public Health Releases Health Impact Assessment for Transportation Policy
Late in 2008, Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski presented his “Jobs and Transportation Act of 2009” to the Oregon House and Senate Transportation Committees. The Governor’s office stated that the plan would create thousands of jobs, establish ...
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