Live from Rainier Beach: What’s in a Good Food Bag?

August 18, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

From the program’s name, you can probably deduce that a Good Food Bag contains food. But here at Public Health Insider, we don’t settle for the easy answers. What else is behind Seattle Tilth’s innovative program to deliver half price, local produce to King County families with limited financial resources? Our intrepid investigator Kate Ortiz […]

Award-winning research links health risk to poor grades

July 13, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

1 in 5 King County teens is at risk of failing in school, and new research from Public Health revealed that the risk of academic failure was linked to students’ health. The data come from the 2012 and 2014 Washington State Healthy Youth Surveys. Health and academic risk Researchers looked at the relationship between academic […]

You otter know (about asthma)

May 17, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Asthma impacts nine percent of adults, five percent of kids, and one sea otter in King County. Yes, a sea otter. Last fall, Mishka, a one-year-old sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium was diagnosed with asthma. Don’t know much about asthma? Public Health Insider teamed up with Mishka and her friends at the Seattle Aquarium to kelp you […]

EPA recognizes asthma program’s leadership

May 3, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

On May 3, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the King County Asthma Program as a recipient of the 2016 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. The award honors local asthma programs for leadership in improving the lives of people with asthma, especially those in underserved communities. Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that […]

Local Colleges Reinvigorate Tobacco Prevention

November 18, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

What’s as addictive as heroin, more deadly than car accidents, and costs the U.S. over $170 billion in healthcare costs each year? Yes, we’re going there. It’s tobacco. We know: tobacco control doesn’t have the thrill of hunting down an E. coli outbreak, nor the gross fascination of a raccoon latrine. But as we express […]