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                                        Washington State Public Health Association
                                                                 Improving the health & safety of Washingtonians through leadership & advancement of public health

                                                                                 An Affiliate of the American Public Health Association                                                   Founded in 1935

Washington State Public Health Association
List of Resolutions from 1997 - 2008


For more information about how to bring issues of policy significance before the WSPHA Board of Directors, please see our Policies and Procedures.

Please contact us for more information.   Proposals should use the required submission form.  Resolutions are normally called for in April/May of each year for vetting by the Board of Directors and submission to the membership for approval at the annual business meeting in October.  However, the Board may act on proposed resolutions from time to time between annual  meetings.  For examples of past Resolutions and policy positions taken by WSPHA, see the list below.

2005-2008

08-03 Encouraging Sustainable Food Practices in Healthcare to Improve and Protect Public Health

08-02 Supporting a Secure, Convenient Medicine Return Program to Reduce the Public Health and Environmental Health Impacts of Unwanted Medicines

08-01 Supporting Actions to Reduce Exposures to Lead to Benefit Children's Health, Learning and Futures

07-06 Addressing the Public Health Impacts of Trans Fats in the Food Supply

07-05 Preventing Nuclear Expansion in Washington State until Health Impacts from Construction, Operation, Nuclear Waste Issues and Transportation are Resolved in Accordance with the Precautionary Principle

07-04 Declaring Falls of Older Adults to be a Serious Threat to the Health and Well-Being of the Citizens of Washington State

07-03 Supporting Federal and Washington State Action to Implement a Comprehensive Chemicals Policy to Improve and Protect Public Health

07-02 Addressing the Public Health Impacts of Global Climate Change

07-01 Washington State Public Health Assocation Supports Coordinated School Health

06-05 Supporting the Conclusions and Recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Public Health Financing  

06-04 Supporting Safer Chemicals Policies to Benefit Human and Environmental Health

06-03 Family Planning and Public Health

06-02 Endorsing the Precautionary Principle as a Public Health Tool for Preventing Harm from Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)

06-01 Addressing the Public Health Implications of the Built Environment

05-04 Encouraging Alternative to PVC/DEHP Products in Health Care

05-03 Washington State Public Health Association Declaring Obesity to be a Serious Threat to the Health and well-being of the Citizens of Washington State (Revised 2007)

05-02 Control and Prevention of Hepatitis C

05-01 Supporting Initiative 901 - Healthy Indoor Air for All Washingtonians

1998-2004

04-04 Improving the Public's Health by Prioritizing Education as a Social Determinant of Health and Insuring Adequate Funding of Public Education

04-03 Protecting Public Health by Phasing Out Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) - Toxic Flame Retardants 

04-02 Prohibiting Smoking in All Workplaces

04-01 State Regulation and Control of Psychoactive Substances

03-04 Reducing Harm from Wood Smoke

03-03 Supporting Repeal of Certain Provisions of the Uniform Individual Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law

03-02 Opposing Initiative 841

03-01 Opposing Premera's Conversion Proposal

02-03 Calling Upon School Officials to Partner with Public Health Officials to Improve Student Diets, Dietary Messages and Levels of Physical Activity

02-02 Preventing Human and Environmental Mercury Exposure and Harm

02-01 Public Health Funding for a Safer, Healthier Washington

01-04 Averting a Public Health Crisis Caused by Drug Shortages

01-03 Support for Initiative 773 - Tobacco Tax

01-02 Reducing the Burden of Arthritis

01-01 Affirming the Importance of Folic Acid in the Diets of Women of Childbearing Age 

00-03 Statewide Public Health Standards

00-02 Resolution to Endorse Initiative 245

00-01 Reducing Gun Violence

99-06 Health Care 2000 Voter Initiative

99-05 Opposing Initiative 695

99-04 Fluoridation of Public Water Systems

99-03 Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD)

99-02 Access to Sterile Syringes and Needles

99-01 Hepatitis A Vaccination

98-06 Unintended Pregnancy

98-05 Breast Cancer Screening

98-04 Life Jackets, Children and Boats

98-03 Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

98-02 Controlling Hepatitis A

98-01 Tobacco Advertising

97-01 Reduce the Incidence of Violence
 
 


Washington State Public Health Association, PO Box 15641, Seattle, WA 98115 
(206) 524-3107 www.wspha.org