public health

Village Gardens Recognized for Health Equity Work

This multifaceted program includes community gardens, a healthy convenience store and visits from community health workers
December 6, 2012 -- Village Gardens started in 2001 as a small community garden project now includes several community programs, including a healthy convenience store. Now it’s received the 2012 Billi Odegaard Genius Award for an “exceptional group” from the Oregon Public Health Institute. Read More >>

Future of Tobacco Settlement Funds Faces Legislature

Coalition urges lawmakers to devote those funds to prevention and has the support of former Attorney General Hardy Myers
December 4, 2012 -- An advocacy coalition of healthcare and public health organizations is seeking legislative support next session on a proposal to spend Oregon’s share of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) funds on prevention and community based-health initiatives. Read More >>

Urban Gleaners Curb Waste, Feed the Hungry

The Portland-based nonprofit specializes in putting perishable food items in the hands of organizations that need it, before they go to waste
December 1, 2012 -- In 2006, Tracy Oseran was driving home from work and heard a news story on the radio about a New England nonprofit called Food For Free, which delivers fresh produce to food pantries, meals-on-wheels programs and other services that deliver food to people in need. Read More >>

National Guidelines Call for Routine HIV Testing

But Oregon is unlikely to fund the HIV/AIDS hotline after next March. which connects people with resources for follow-up testing
November 29, 2012 -- A new set of draft recommendations would make HIV tests as routine as blood sugar screenings or cholesterol tests – at least in theory. Earlier this month, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released draft recommendations that HIV testing become routine for everyone between the ages of 15 and 65 – regardless of whether they are considered high risk for infection.   Read More >>

Dr. Martin Donohoe’s New Book Cites Major Advances in Public Health

His website, Phsj.org, has gotten 575,000 hits since its inception in 2007, and focuses on public health and social justice issues
November 23, 2012 -- When you Google “public health and social justice,” the first thing that comes up is Portland Dr. Martin Donohoe’s expansive website. Read More >>

Recovery-Oriented Research Funded by Mental Healthcare Foundation

Inspired by Robert Whitaker's 'Anatomy of an Epidemic,' the grants will aid investigation of care models that have helped patients overseas
November 21, 2012 -- The Wilsonville-based Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care – started last year to support a new model for mental health research – has awarded a $100,000 grant to research whether the Finnish “open dialogue” model can be implemented in the United States, and is both offering and seeking funds for other related grant projects. Read More >>

Culturally Appropriate Care Vital to CCO’s Success

Lillian Shirley, the director of Multnomah County’s Public Health Department, believes it’s critical to understand where a patient is coming from
November 20, 2012 -- Oregon’s new coordinated care organizations should make important public health goals such as reducing diabetes and obesity top priorities, but they must realize that culturally appropriate care is essential if their messages are to be heard, a top public health official told The Lund Report. Read More >>

Farm to School Program Awards Grants to Local Schools

Schools can still apply for funding from a state-grant program until December 14
November 15, 2012 -- School children in Eugene and Portland will be eating more local agricultural products next year, and learning more about where their food comes from thanks to federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm to School Program – and schools around the state are still invited to apply for funding through a state-run grant program whose application deadline is Dec. 14. Read More >>

Many Homeowners Unaware of Lead Contamination

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend routine blood lead testing for all children between the ages of one and six
November 15, 2012 -- Greig Warner, lead risk assessor for the Multnomah County Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, sometimes goes a month without being called out to inspect a home suspected to be lead contaminated – and sometimes he visits as many as two families per day. “I've just been buried lately,” he said. Read More >>

Activists Push to Halt Coal Exports, Coal Burning

Local health, environmental and clean energy groups participate in a screening to hear about the struggles of activists in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia
November 8, 2012 -- The fight to keep coal trains from passing through Oregon on their way to ports overseas was put in a national context at a free screening of the documentary, The Last Mountain, at Portland's Bagdad Theater last week. Read More >>
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