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The burning question about tobacco and its future in Colorado
Are you a state legislator, a staffer, an elected county official or a member of Colorado’s health policy community? Mark December 14 and 15 on your calendar for our annual Hot Issues in Health Care conference at Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs.
Research analyst Nina Roumell just had to explain Kylie Jenner to me. I still don’t get it. But while there are many parts of Millennial culture I can’t account for (I’m looking at you, Snapchat, “bae” and pumpkin spice everything), there’s one thing I can: why so many twentysomethings don’t have health coverage.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore smoking among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) has analyzed new county-level estimates on drug overdose deaths by county from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report and a time-lapse map.
An index created by the Colorado Health Institute to measure Colorado’s progress in improving access to health care for its residents.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore bullying among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore mental health among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
We spent weeks hashing out our recent financial analysis of ColoradoCare, agonizing over more than 50 different variables and assumptions that fed into our work. I’m not surprised that our analysis of one of those variables — the Hospital Provider Fee — has been one of the more contentious parts of our report.
One of the most puzzling results of the 2015 Colorado Health Access Survey has to do with the relationship between dental insurance and dental visits.