Category Archive: Economic Issues
Arizona’s $50 Medicaid Fee for Smoking and Overweight: Effective? Ethical?
Arizona’s Medicaid program is considering adding a $50 tax on single patients who smoke or are overweight and decline to participate in a doctor-supervised weight-loss regimen. Program spokeswoman Monica Coury told MSNBC that the tax is intended ...
Paid Family Leave - Is it a public health issue?
The City of Seattle is looking at requiring businesses to provide their workers access to paid family leave. A recent article in the Seattle times outlines the effort, which is supported by the Seattle Coalition for a Healthy ...
The Farm Bureau: Bad as all that?
Eric Schlosser’s recent look at the nefarious attempts of industrial food processors to deflect their own responsibility to our nation’s health by labeling their critics as “elitist,” has brought to my attention a new evil empire: The ...
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 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 ...
Apply for a CHP grant to energize your neighborhood or community!
Would you like a kick-start the process of transforming your community into a more health-focused place to live?
Consider applying for a small Community Health Priorities grant to support your community engagement efforts.
We are looking for ...
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 ...
New Research Confirms: School lunch programs help break the poverty cycle
Which public programs provide the most bang for the buck in improving the public’s health? New research suggests that government-sponsored school meal programs may be high on the list.
The Quebec-based study, published in the journal ...
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Merkely to White House: Spend One-Fourth of Public Health Fund on Tobacco Prevention
In a December 2 letter to President Obama, Jeff Merkley, along with five other U.S. senators, urges the President to request $225 million for tobacco prevention and cessation programs in your budget request for Fiscal Year 2012.
Among their ...
Law and Order (Briefly) Addresses Soda Tax and Subsidies
Who says prime time network TV ignores the real issues?
OK, it happened in a flash, but it’s also the one clip that Law and Order: Special Victims Unit placed on their website.
Here’s the conversation:
“Well I’m pissed the soda tax ...
How the University of Minnesota Plans to Lower Obesity Rates
The University of Minnesota has received a $7 million National Institutes of Health grant to create a childhood obesity center that hopes to change the exercise and eating habits of more 530 Minnesota families.
Researchers plan to address the ...
Prevention and Public Health Fund in Jeopardy: Take action here!
On Tuesday, September 14, senators in Congress are scheduled to cast a critical vote on a bill designed to encourage economic growth for small businesses. However, in this case, the outcome could end up hurting small business and seriously ...
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