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OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE
JUNE 12 2009
Oregonians speak out - a series
of conversations about creating a healthy
environment for everyone in our community.
good health:
how can we
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Preventing disease
It’s critical that preventive health care
becomes an important part of every
Oregonian’s life. We’re spending $10
billion each year to fight chronic
conditions like obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
ways to empower their communities by organizing everything
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encourage good health and community involvement.
Conversation and action can make anyone a leader. And
when people come together, they can make a real difference.
—Janet Hamada
Oregonians need to stop these diseases. We need to be
Executive Director of The Next Door
more aggressive - educating people about changing their
health behaviors and surrounding them with healthier choices.
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Making choices
This is especially important to Oregon business leaders.
Our transportation choices can have
Preventing disease will decrease our health care costs. It
a huge effect on our community’s
will improve the productivity of Oregon employees. And it
quality of life. And it’s not hard to see
will create an environment where overall health - not a trip
that when we’re given more options,
to the doctor - is the ultimate goal.
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it’s easier to make healthier choices.
—Bill Thorndike
President of Medford Fabrication and Chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board
When more people park their cars and walk, bike or
use public transportation, awesome things happen. Our
Empowering neighbors
roadways become safer because motorists are used to
To keep our neighbors healthy and
sharing the road with bikes and pedestrians. The air in our
connected, it’s important to get them
neighborhoods becomes cleaner without excessive idling
to turn off their TVs, get out of their
of cars. And people become healthier because every trip
homes and talk with each other. For
starts with exercise, whether it’s walking to the store - or
to the bus stop.
our rural communities, this is especially important.
—Kim Curley
Hood River is one of the most bountiful places in Oregon.
Community Outreach Manager of Commute Options for Central Oregon
But it’s also a place where poverty and isolation are taking
“Improving the public’s health is an issue we all
support. We need to look at the root causes of problems
and focus on ways to solve them. Then we can create
a new, higher standard of health for everyone.”
— Jim Hill. Board Chair of Northwest Health Foundation
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