What's New 2010
Summer Newsletter
Find out the latest news from Community Health Partnership featuring our recent activities. Our Summer 2010 newsletter can be read or downloaded. Click here. To see past issues of our newsletter, click here.
Wednesday February 17, 2010
Release of National Report on County Health Rankings:
See How Oregon's Counties Rank
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has prepared health rankings for every county in the nation. These county rankings take health largely out of the clinical realm. In fact, the lion's share of disease prevention takes place at home, school, and work. The County Health Rankings are based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many things —health behaviors, social and economic factors, the physical environment as well as clinical care access and quality of care— that make us sick. By improving in these areas, we can make communities healthier places to live, work, learn and play.
Please see www.countyhealthrankings.org to learn more about the county health rankings report.
January 29, 2010
Community Health Partnership: Oregon's Public Health Institute releases the summary report of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Health Roundtable Project. In January of 2009, we convened a roundtable of key stakeholders interested in the connections between food insecurity, poverty, health and the SNAP Program. By forging relationships and sharing knowledge and experience among these stakeholders, we built the capacity to develop recommendations to optimize SNAP dollars to promote health among low-income families. To read or print the report, click here.
January 12, 2010
Breaking News: Community Health Partnership: Oregon's Public Health Institute is awarded a 4-year, $360,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For the full press release, click here. For more information about our Healthy Eating Active Living Initiative and Healthy Portland Plan, click here.
