Category Archive: Rural Health
Portland Public Schools and Physical Education: Progress but not total victory
Thanks in large part to the hard work of the Coalition to Save Portland PE, particularly the indefatigable Mary Lou Hennrich, Portland Public Schools will not completely gut its physical education programs in spite of upcoming budget restraints. ...
Nursing Policy: Is it a public health issue?
Northwest Health Foundation president Thomas Aschenbrener’s recent opinion article in the Oregonian generated varied responses both online, over the phone, and in person.
Clearly the extent to which our nation enables aspiring nurses, and ...
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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85 Youth from All Over Oregon Use Camera to Show What Health Means to Them
- Scio
- Hood River
- La Grande
- Tillamook
- Lincoln City
- The Dalles
- St. Helens
- Clackamas
These are just some of the towns from which we received entries in this year’s photo contest. It was another success as we received 85 photos from ...
What a CHP Grant Can Do - For an Immigrant Community in Portland
According to Elizabeth Fussell, Development Director, at the VOZ Workers Rights Education Project, “our community conversations went extremely well! We had a total of 87 day laborers participate, of which 40 attended all three of the films and ...
What a CHP Grant Can Do - In Eugene
Community Health Priorities has small grants available for people interested in taking the first steps to making their communities healthier for everyone.
What does this mean?
What does this entail?
What does this look like?
The answer is ...
Oregon Legislators Discuss County Health Rankings
On February 18, Mary Lou Hennrich of Oregon’s Public Health Institute led a discussion for Oregon legislators about the recently released County Health Rankings, which compares Oregon counties against each other in various categories of health ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Northwest Health Foundation Urges “Yes” Vote on 66 and 67
Community Health Priorities - a project of the Northwest Health Foundation - explores environments, activities and policies that influence health and makes recommendations on those policies when it seems important to do so.
Right now it is ...
Central Valley, CA: Nation’s most ironically unhealthy region
California’s Central Valley is the most productive food producing region in the U.S., raising half of the nation’s entire crop of fruits and vegetables, and serving as our largest dairy region.
Ironically, it’s also one of the poorest areas ...
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