public health

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 >>

Kaiser Physicians Incorporate Exercise into Every Visit

The effort is part of a multi-organizational push to make exercise a vital sign
October 31, 2012 – Physicians working for Kaiser in Oregon and California are now treating exercise as a vital sign. That is, patients are asked how much exercise they get per week, for both routine checkups and acute care visits – regardless of the nature of the visit. Read More >>

Childhood Lead Action Level Drops, But Funding Lags

Removing the Source of Exposure Critical to Treating Lead Poisoning
October 29, 2012 -- Until May of this year, the Centers for Disease Control's “action level” for blood poisoning in children was 10 micrograms per deciliter. Now the CDC has set what its website calls the “level of concern” for blood-lead poisoning at five micrograms per deciliter – but just what that means for families, healthcare providers and local governments remains to be seen. Read More >>

Bay Area, OHSU Hospitals Trail in Safety Scores

Infections down despite ongoing challenges
October 29, 2012 -- Add customer savvy to the lengthy list of resources Oregonians might need when they face hospital care. A survey of U.S. hospitals details infection and other risks posed by even the most “routine” hospital stays. Read More >>

Southwest Community Health Center Focuses on Uninsured

A majority of patients at the Multnomah Village-based clinic come from southwest Portland, but patients travel from as far away as Troutdale or Woodburn to seek care
October 25, 2012 -- For seven years, the Southwest Community Health Center – nestled in the heart of southwest Portland's Multnomah Village – has served Portland's uninsured, with no restrictions on age, income or neighborhood. Forty percent of patients travel to the neighborhood from outside southwest Portland – some from as far away as Troutdale or Woodburn – but the majority of patients live in the southwest quadrant. Read More >>

Public Education Employees Shed Thousands of Pounds

Medical costs related to obesity in adults in Oregon amounted to $ 1.6 billion in 2006, according to the Oregon Health Authority
October 22, 2012 -- Oregon public education employees have lost nearly 200,000 pounds in a 20-month period that began in October 2010 after the state added free Weight Watchers classes as a benefit, an administrator for the Oregon Educators Benefit Board (OEBB) told The Lund Report. Read More >>

Up to 200,000 Oregonians Could Still be Uninsured in 2019

Although the numbers have not been adjusted to account for state-level reforms, advocates are worried about shrinking resources for uninsured people
October 19, 2012 -- A 2010 report published by the Oregon Office of Health Policy Research estimates that 35 percent of currently people lacking insurance would remain uninsured by 2019, despite expanded coverage by the Affordable Care Act. Read More >>

Years After Its Ban, Lead Paint Exacts a Toll on Human Health

Data says poor, minority children are still hardest hit – but the problem affects everybody
October 16, 2012 -- In 2005, Tamara Rubin, her husband and four children were living in the Irvington neighborhood in northeast Portland, in a home that had been placed on the National Historic Registry. She and her husband decided to repaint the home and restore it to its original integrity, so they refinanced the home and started interviewing contractors.   Read More >>
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