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  1. A qualitative assessment of Clark County's mental health delivery system

    During the past several years, service delivery for mental health in Clark County has changed dramatically. The increase in funding from the federal government in the 1960's, the trend toward...

  2. Active Transportation, Neighborhood Planning and Participatory GIS (Geographic Information System)

    Research on walking, the built environment, and healthy communities is a fairly recent area of inquiry, accelerated over the last ten years by an increased interest in the relationship between urban form and...

  3. The Latino Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile

    Our report, "The Latino Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile" uncovers an array of racial inequities across the systems of income, employment, education, juvenile justice, corrections, child...

  4. A Case Study of the Development of Oregon's 1985 Public Policy in Youth Substance Abuse

    Youth substance abuse in Oregon reached epidemic proportions in the early 1980s. A response to this social issue from the Governor's Office, the state legislature, and the Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs...

  5. Curanderismo and Health Delivery Services

    This study explores and describes curanderismo (folk curing) and the cultural disease concepts of mollera caida, empacho, mal de ojo, and susto as researched in a rural Oregon community. Chicano cultural...

  6. Demonstrating the Benefits of Green Streets for Active Aging: Initial Findings

    This project will help demonstrate how sustainable ("green") streets contribute to the well-being of a community, including the physical and mental health of older and younger adults, along with the environment...

  7. Child and Maternal Health in the Slavic Community: Insights on Assets and Priorities

    The Slavic community’s health is impacted by race and ethnicity, and also by issues that flow from being a newcomer community, and also from their status as refugees. They also bring to the U.S.A. cultural...

  8. Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations

    Communities of color have long been marginalized in mainstream service delivery – invisible in terms of their access to resources and services, the adequacy of such services, and in the types of interventions...

  9. Oral Care & Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in Oregon

    This report attempts to describe the current knowledge of oral health care access within Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Oregon based on secondary data from the Oregon...

  10. Some observations of the Swedish psychiatric system

    The purpose of this report is to introduce the reader to the system of psychiatric services in Sweden. The format of this report is a brief summary of the economic, political and value context of the Swedish...

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