Content Spotlights
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Free Info Access
A variety of information resources are available to all licensed health providers around the state through the OHSU Library.
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OHSU Community Service
OHSU’s community service activities make life better for people all across Oregon, like Ivan and his family, who live in Central Point.
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Community Connections
Oregon communities share a common desire to have access to the best available health care and health education. OHSU collaborations fulfill those needs and a new e-newsletter shares those stories.
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Community teen steroid prevention:
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2011/11-23-wasco-county-high-school.cfm
OHSU researchers partner with firefighters to protect children:
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2011/11-15-ohsu-researchers-partner.cfm
Brochure Focuses Attention on Driver Distraction
The new Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation brochure – Dialing, talking, texting … Know the Hazards of Driver Distraction – is now available online at the OR-FACE website (www.ohsu.edu/croet/face). The brochure discusses distractions common to both handheld and hands-free phones, including issues of mental distraction while multi-tasking, and presents a table of relative risk ratios for the most common distractions (with data from the Virginia Tech 100?Car Study). Also included are three stories of fatal incidents in Oregon involving drivers using cell phones, and a list of safety recommendations.
The brochure was produced in response to a request from safety trainers at SAIF, the state’s principal Workers’ Compensation insurer, and was designed to facilitate printing from the online document. Response by agencies supervising employee car fleets has been enthusiastic. OR?FACE intends to produce a print run of the brochure to circulate through Oregon transportation and driver safety offices, and to other target audiences.
More OR-FACE publications are available on the OR-FACE publications page.
Online offerings from OHSU Office of Rural Health
OHSU's Office of Rural Health offers several series of online learning sessions on a variety of topics available to health care providers in rural Oregon.
