Colorado Health Report Card: New Features This Year

The 2013 Colorado Health Report Card - produced through a collaboration of the Colorado Health Foundation and the Colorado Health Institute - launched today with a number of helpful new features.

Now in its eighth year, the Report Card tracks 38 indicators spanning five life stages.

For the first time, all of the supporting data are downloadable.They are available here. Data relate to each of the five life stages measured annually in the Report Card: healthy beginnings, healthy children, healthy adolescents, healthy adults and healthy aging. 

In addition, the Report Card is complemented this year with five "Behind the Numbers" publications that delve more deeply into  issues of special interest.  Read more about trends over time, promising practices as well as a summary of a Colorado Health Foundation grantee making a difference in this area.

The five special publications are: Prenatal Care, Physical Activity, Adolescent Poverty, Uninsured and LImited Activity.

The Report Card Supplement, titled " A Roadmap to Number One," focuses on lessons that Colorado - which has been struggling to improve its health-related grade point average - can take away from the successful efforts of other states.

Interview the Analysts: The analysts who prepared the report are available for interviews: Sara Schmitt, schmitts@coloradohealthinstitute.org or 720.382.7081. Natalie Triedman, triedmann@coloradohealthinstitute.org or 720.382.7077. 

Media Contact: Deborah Goeken, Senior Director of Operations and Communications, goekend@coloradohealthinstitute.org or 720.382.7094.

ABOUT THE COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE:

The Colorado Health Institute is a nonpartisan health policy research institute that provides information, data and analysis for the state’s health care leaders. It is funded by the Caring for Colorado Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Trust and The Colorado Health Foundation.