Healthy Living Resources

The Department of Human Services (DHS), along with its state and local partner agencies, encourages use of a wide range of healthy living resources designed to promote the benefits of healthy behaviors.

• Addiction Services
• Disease Management and Prevention
• Early Childhood Care
• Nutrition and Exercise
• Prevention Programs

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Addiction Services  

• Alcohol and drug abuse, gambling and smoking addiction services
• "Quit and Celebrate!" (PDF) Oregon Tobacco Quit Line brochure for Oregon Health Plan (OHP) clients
• Tobacco cessation programs (PDF) for OHP providers, updated 2/21/06  [Note: This document prints on 14" paper.]

Disease Management and Prevention more

• Arthritis
• Asthma in Oregon  Web site
  • Asthma and smoking brochure (PDF)
  • Asthma resource bank
• Chronic illness self-management  
• Diabetes
• Heart disease and stroke
• Pain management

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Early Childhood Care

• Breastfeeding
• Early childhood cavities prevention
• Hearing detection
• Immunization schedule and an article (PDF) on its importance
• Smoke-free mothers and babies

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Nutrition and Exercise

• Physical activity and nutrition programs
• Eating right: the new USDA food pyramid

Prevention Programs

• HIV prevention
• DHS prevention programs page  (including Safety Net and other family-oriented programs and services)
• Smoking cessation assistance
• Suicide prevention—youth
• Suicide prevention—elders
• Teen pregnancy prevention

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