Category Archive: Disparities
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 ...
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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 ...
Oregonians are Optimistic about Coordinated Care
On August 1, 2012, “Coordinated Care Organizations” began serving Oregonians covered by the Oregon Health Plan – the state’s Medicaid health program.
CCO’s were made possible thanks to bi-partisan support from the Oregon Legislature, and ...
“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 ...
Public in Favor of Soda “Fee” to Cover Health Programs
In an April 2012 survey, 62% of California voters supported a “special fee” on soda and soft drinks to fight obesity among children. The survey was conducted by Field Research Corporation on behalf of the California Endowment.
Meanwhile, ...
Health Care Transformation: The Opportunities Ahead
Oregon has just taken a bold step forward toward transforming its health care system. The legislature’s passage of SB 1580 will now allow communities to create “coordinated care organizations” (CCOs) — teams of nurses, doctors, mental ...Hunger and Obesity: Two Sides of the Malnutrition Coin
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” - Wendell Berry
This January, Laurie Trieger, executive director of the Lane Coalition for Healthy ...
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