Posted in Health, tagged flu, H1N1, Health, Tulsa Health Department on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since I’m stuck at home with H1N1 this week, I thought I’d do a little public service and offer you all some flu-related resources:
Flu.gov. First stop is FLU.gov. This is the federal government’s central clearinghouse for flu information. You can find out where to get flu shots, how to prevent and treat the flu, and what your [...]
Posted in Economic Security & Advancement, Health, Intergenerational Poverty, Policy on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the Food Research and Action Center suggested a strategy for ending childhood hunger by 2015, a goal to which President Obama committed during his Presidential campaign. The strategy includes:
Restoring economic growth and creating jobs with better wages for lower-income workers
Raising the incomes of the lowest-income families
Strengthening the SNAP/Food Stamp Program
Strengthening the Child Nutrition [...]
Posted in Health, tagged food and nutrition, food deserts on June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ezra Klein, a health policy blogger for the Washington Post, links to a new report from the Food and Drug Administration examining the problem of food deserts – places that lack access to full-service grocery stores and the fresh produce they sell. This isn’t really a food equity blog, but since I recently posted on [...]
Posted in Health, tagged Health, positive deviance on June 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Just over a year ago, CAP hosted seminars in a new method of social change called “positive deviance.” The basic idea of positive deviance is that, within any given community possessing any given problem, some members through their own actions will fare better than others given equal resources. Observing what makes these “deviants” positive can [...]
Posted in Health, tagged food and nutrition, food deserts, NYC on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times reports on that city’s efforts to bring fresh produce to so-called “food desert” neighborhoods. The city launched an initiative called Green Carts, which created licenses for 1,000 new food vendors (carts) provided that they sell only fresh fruits and vegetables and that they locate in the designated food deserts, such as [...]
Posted in Health, tagged Health, Tulsa on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Tulsa Health Department’s Pathways to Health program is a community planning process for improving the health and quality of life in neighborhoods across Tulsa. Part of the process was an extensive survey, which they have used to identify priorities and strengths in every Tulsa zip c0de. You can view the priorities for your area by [...]
Posted in Health, tagged Eugene Field, food and nutrition, Global Gardens, The Harvest on April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Harvest Tulsa grocery store will have its “soft opening” this Saturday, and will be open from 10am to 6pm. The store, located on Nogales just north of W. 23rd St., will make groceries and fresh food accessible to the residents of the Eugene Field area. The project is the result of collaboration between Global Gardens, some [...]
Posted in Health on March 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Washington Post has a story about a hunger researcher, Mariana Chilton of Drexel University, who wanted to do more than conduct surveys and crunch numbers. So after winning a $100,000 award (the article doesn’t specify what it was for), she spent it on giving digital cameras to many of the poor mothers she had [...]
Posted in Health, education, tagged absenteeism, education, hand sanitizer, Health on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Researching the consequences of elementary school absenteeism (or, if you’re an optimist, the benefits of attendance). Came across a study that found that the availability of an “alcohol gel hand sanitizer” (i.e. Germ-x) in elementary classrooms reduced child absences school wide by 20% and teacher absences by 10%. Specifically, teachers and students used the product [...]
Posted in Health, tagged Health, insurance, unemployment on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Families USA has a report (PDF) out detailing the inadequacy of COBRA. As you may know, COBRA allows displaced workers who lose their health insurance to purchase their previous employers’ policy for a certain period of time. In Oklahoma, the average worker who loses her job will pay 31.1% of her unemployment insurance on COBRA [...]
