Category Archive: Public Health
Topics dealing with public health.
2013 Youth Photo Contest Winners Announced!
A big thank you to our partner in the photo contest, the Oregon Public Health Division, our youth and adult volunteer judging panels and the more than 100 entrants. The theme of the 2013 photo contest focused on the interconnection between ...
To add or not to add?
To add or not to add? This is the question that Portland residents face this May when they will cast votes on Measure 26-151. The decision each voter will make should be a well–informed decision based on the best available evidence. At least, ...
Nichole Maher: Community Outreach Report
As someone who grew up in a very rural community in Lincoln County, Oregon, I feel that I have a real understanding of how each location in our region is geographically and culturally unique. One thing my experience taught me is that I have so ...
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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 ...
CCO Conference Highlights Health Transformation
I spent the last two days at CCO Oregon’s “Transforming Care 2013” conference where I was excited to learn how communities throughout the state are working to achieve real integration between health and health care. It was an encouraging ...
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 ...
Report from the field: Jackson County Addresses Teen Pregnancy
By Joanne Noone
In Jackson County in southern Oregon, the Latina teen pregnancy rates for 2008 and 2009 were double those for non-Hispanics. As part of a three-year Northwest Health Foundation Community-Based Participatory research (CBPR) grant, ...
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, ...
Can Oregon Learn Health Transformation from Alaska?
Three NWHF staff - president Nichole Maher, program officer Alejandro Queral and I - have just returned from a three-day visit to Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization serving nearly 60,000 people ...
Portland Has Chance to Make an Impact on Oregon’s Dental Health Crisis
Oregon is now in the national spotlight with two major initiatives: the transformation of the health care system, and an ambitious plan for dramatically improving education system. However, while Oregon is proudly wearing its badge as a ...
“Grab ahold of your privilege and take to the streets!”
A report from the City Club of Portland’s Action Summit, June 1, 2012
By McKenzie Ingram, NWHF Intern, Spring 2012
“The greatest threat to constitutional government is a lack of civil discourse.”
So said one member of Lincoln High ...
All Eyes Are on Oregon…How will we respond?
I recently participated in “The Princeton Conference,” a gathering of national health policy leaders hosted by Brandeis University’s Council on Health Care Economics. This year’s theme was “States’ Role in Health Care,” and the ...
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