Category Archive: Polls
What’s your community health priority?
This is post we created back in 2008. Since that time it received over 100 responses. Click through them to see what our grantees, partners, and colleagues said when we asked: What’s your community health priority?
We know it’s hard, but if you ...
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Doctors Want to Address Social Factors Affecting Health
A recent survey of doctors finds that they are well-aware of the impact of social needs on their patients’ health. The survey of 1,000 primary care physicians and pediatricians was conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Robert Wood ...
Poll: Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda?
According to the American Journal of Public Health, the soft drink industry receives a $4 billion subsidy from taxpayers each year. That’s how much soda is purchased with public money from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program ...
Tobacco and Obesity Prevention: Now competing for limited funding?
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., and Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D.write that, at a time when health funding sources are focusing efforts and dollars on obesity prevention, smoking remains by far the ...
Northwest Health Foundation releases new CHP public opinion poll
Northwest Health Foundation, through its Community Health Priorities Project, has just released new public opinion research conducted by Davis Hibbitts Midghall, revealing areas where Oregonians want health dollars spent.
Among the ...
Is a Soda Tax Paternalism? Victim Blaming?
The CHP Twitter feed recently received a message from @erinashmiller, who tweeted that “taxing junk food violates horizontal & vertical equity, also paternalistic.”
The tweet included a link to an article she wrote on agriculture policy ...
Poll: What’s your view on a soda tax?
As momentum builds nationally for a tax on soda (or “sugar-sweetened beverages”), there are various points of view on the issue. What’s yours? If you don’t see a response that comes close to your view, please post a comment. Soda Tax: Which is ...Healthy Communities Survey for OMSI Visitors - or anyone else!
Thanks for visiting us at OMSI. Please share your thoughts on how to improve the health of your community here! Thank ...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 ...
New York Times Editorial: Yes on Soda Tax
A New York Times editorial from June 3, 2009, concluded by saying: “All consumers — not just those lucky enough to live near farms or large grocery stores — should be able to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at affordable prices. While we ...
Looking Elsewhere at the Menu Labeling Debate
When many people think of Tennessee, they think of the Deep South and the stereotypes that come with it, including warm hospitality and delicious (read: fattening) southern food. Southerners love to eat - isn’t that the truth?
Did you know ...
The Best Tobacco Tax Yet
The Oregon Legislature is now considering a 60-cent tobacco tax on cigarettes to raise money for tobacco prevention and other public health programs. According to the Oregonian, state representative Mitch Greenlick believes lawmakers will ...
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