Information is power to think and to guide one's choices.
The resources included in the pages of links are to help Tillamook County communities, individuals, and families access resources on how to live healthy.
These links can also be of use to students doing research and making choices for prevention.
Public health is everyone's business. From preconception to death, public health priorities are important for preventing the spread of disease, maximizing the possibilities for populations and individuals to live long, quality lives.
The resources listed were carefully reviewed before posting. While reputable public health sources are listed and best practices in prevention advocated, some differences of opinion exist.
Consumers need to study and make choices for themselves about best practices for their own lives.
Tillamook County communities aim to create environments where healthy choices are the natural choices a child learns growing up and adults make as they age.
The Tillamook County Health Department is a resource to help create environments for healthy community norms.
Health Organizations Working Together
"Healthful" Living and "Wellness"
Addictive Prevention and Management
Disaster Prevention/Preparation
Safety in the Home, Workplace, and Recreation
Environmental and Food Supply Protection
Immunizations/Communicable Disease
Health Organizations Working Together
Key partners in public health work are included here from a local to a global level.
Tillamook County General Hospital
Tillamook Commission on Children and Families
U.S.P.H.S. Centers for Disease Control
National Institute of Drug Abuse
National Heart Lung and Blood
"Healthful" Living and "Wellness"
The primary goal of this site is to help you live healthfully and well. Prevention is usually much better than cure.
Healthy communities and individuals make choices that over the long run lead to happy, longer, and fulfilling experiences individually and collectively.
The basics are simple. The websites below the headings are links to valuable, useful information for this focus on health.
Tobacco use is a chronic disease that begins in youth. Ninety percent of smokers start before finishing high school. Nicotine is as powerful and addictive as another opiate, heroin. After a period of experimentation and usage, the "pediatric" disease phase begins and continues, often for life. But millions have and will quit.
These sites are useful for those thinking about quitting:
For those interested in the global tobacco epidemic and its effect on the US and Oregon, many sites are available at these links:
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package
International news on tobacco prevention, use, and control work is available at Tobacco.org
For those interested in becoming a partner in tobacco/chronic disease prevention, education, and advocacy in Tillamook County, email Tillamook County Health department: Jim Becraft
Addictive Prevention and Management
Basic information about the process of addiction is available here:
NIDA InfoFacts: Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction
Alcohol
Information on alcohol and addictive drugs is located here:
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Information for families, individuals, and youth dealing with alcohol as a problem may benefit from these websites.
Search for local Alcoholics Anonymous Resources
Search for Al-Anon/Alateen Meetings
Questions about the law and underage alcohol use in Oregon may be located here:
Oregon’s Alcohol Laws and Minors
Methamphetamines
Information on methamphetamine addiction and assistance to deal with addiction may be located here:
National
Institute of Drug Abuse Methamphetamine Research Report
Heroin
Help and information on heroin abuse is located at this site.
National
Institute of Drug Abuse Heroin Research Report
Prescription Drug Addiction
National Institute of Drug Abuse Prescription Research Report
American Dietetic Association's EatRight.org
Nutrition Resources for Health Professionals
Physical Activity and Nutrition Program
First there is walking and fidgeting and moving at the bus stop or in the grocery line, to just keeping moving and stretching. It all makes a difference in fitness. The human being was made to move and rest intermittently - at least every five minutes.
Centers for Disease Control Introduction to Physical Activity
CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
Wikipedia Article: Exercise Physiology
Physical Activity and Nutrition Program
Physical Activity Guidelines for Everyone
Wikipedia Article: The Human Brain
Creating a human mind is the work of the human brain. The website below is an interesting contrast. Developing the mind is a life work.
The National Institute of Mental Health prepared this curriculum on mental health for junior high school students. Guides for teachers and students are easy to access.
Wikipedia Article: Social Determinants of Health
Many organizations in Tillamook County are critical for helping build a foundation for social health. The effectiveness of these organizations and Tillamook County communities is based on the pursuit of effective human relations.
Tillamook Family Counseling Center
Disaster Prevention/Preparation
Information for you to use in preparing your home for flooding, fire, earthquake, and natural disasters.
CDC Natural Disasters & Severe Weather
Tillamook County Emergency Management
Safety in the Home, Workplace, and in Recreation
Safety first. Everybody. Everywhere. All the time. All of us.
A full range of safety considerations for the home are included here.
FirstGov for Consumers: Your Home
For the workplace:
Dealing with insomnia, how to sleep well is a challenge of many. Some sleep too much. The National Sleep Foundation provides facts and counteracts myths about sleep.
Environmental and Food Supply Protection
The Centers for Disease Control's environmental health portal is a basic gateway for information on environmental health and food supply protection.
CDC National Center for Environmental Health
State of Oregon Office of Environmental Public Health
Tillamook County Environmental Health
Immunizations/Communicable Disease
The U.S.P.H.S. centers for Disease Control is the definitive source of information, schedules, and standards of immunizations.
State of Oregon immunization requirements, recommendations, and schedules are available at the Division of Public Health. Information about shots for international travel is also available.
Oregon's Shots By 2 Immunization Program
Preventing Diseases, Disability, and Death
The Tillamook County Health Department also zeroes in on disease management. Below are resources to both help manage or prevent the chronic diseases that disable and kill millions of Americans, including large numbers of Tillamook County residents.
Many casual factors are involved with these chronic diseases. Some are preventable. Some are not. Often chronic diseases can be prevented and/or managed more effectively if specific lifestyle choices are made.
The best choice one can make to prevent chronic disease is to quit or to never begin using tobacco products. Tobacco is related to the key chronic diseases killing Americans. While it is not the only casual factor involved, it plays a huge role in negative health outcomes.
Chronic Diseases to Prevent or Manage
Last updated 03/04/2010 02:01 PM