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An Analysis of Enrollment, Costs and Benefits – and How They Exceeded Expectations
Nearly 29 percent of residents of the San Luis Valley counties of Saguache, Mineral, Rio Grande, Alamosa, Conejos and Costilla reported that they could not get an appointment with a physician when they needed one in the past year, according to the 2015 Colorado Health Access Survey (CHAS).
Drumroll, please! Introducing the first map in a new series called “CHAS: Mapping Data A to Z.” Let’s break it down.
As the legislative session raced to a close, the tense final votes were like a down-to-the-wire basketball championship: a lot of drama building to an unsurprising ending.
This fourth installment of the "Better by Design" series focuses on the connection between housing and health.
Equity in behavioral health will only be achieved by addressing underlying disparities. This was my top takeaway from three days in Tampa learning about everything from the root cause of behavioral health disparities to early intervention in psychosis for children.
Team Colorado Health Institute made an important finding at our Monday morning huddle: not one of us picked the Kentucky Derby winner, Nyquist, even though he was the favorite.
But do not fear. Our odds of understanding the most important health and health policy issues in Colorado are excellent.
State-level data aren’t a thing of the past. But local data are definitely a thing of the present.
In the past few years, CHI has witnessed a shift in the way the health community talks about and measures health. The big picture is still important context but local concerns are increasingly part of the conversation.
Why is this happening now?
It’d be nice to have a time-turner right about now. Legislators are working overtime to get through still undecided bills, and of all the magical things from Harry Potter’s universe, a pendant to increase the number of work hours in a day might sound the most appealing.
It was 2006 and a young health policy analyst who had just started working at the Colorado Health Institute helped to launch an ambitious new project — collecting and analyzing data about school-based health centers and other parts of the health care safety net.