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Dental advocates, legislators, oral health providers, students from Rocky Mountain Prep and the tooth fairy herself gathered at the Capitol this morning to recognize the importance of a healthy mouth.
All the Colorado Health Institute data detectives–who collect, assemble, crunch and interpret numbers to inform health care policy–have compiled their favorite graphics of 2013. Each is an example of how to make numbers accessible as well as informative.
The Colorado Health Institute team is proud to have our work recognized with five Gold Leaf Awards. In case you missed them the first time, here are our award winners.
A mountain hike just feels like Colorado, and it didn’t take long to decide on a theme for our new report: Reaching Our Peak: Creating a Healthier Colorado. We examine policies and programs gaining momentum in Colorado and across the nation within the health care system and beyond – schools, communities, the workplace, and where we age – because the trail to better health most often begins outside a health provider’s office.
My summer practicum at CHI represents the best of two worlds for me: I get to work on projects that will benefit the state that I love while focusing on topics that I am passionate about, long-term care and elder abuse.
This afternoon, under a sunny noon sky in Civic Center Plaza, the governor shared his plan for helping Colorado to reach its goal of becoming the healthiest state in the nation. CHI's newest brief discusses five questions surrounding efforts to achieve the goal.
Governor John Hickenlooper has set the goal of making Colorado the healthiest state in the nation. CHI analyzes the governor’s health strategy, titled “A State of Health.”
The recent release of the 2013 County Health Rankings provides Colorado policymakers and local health leaders with new insights on the health and well-being of our counties as well as resources and “roadmaps” for tackling complex, but critical, health issues.
New CHI analysis of the 2011/12 National Survey of Children's Health finds that 10.9% of Colorado children were obese in 2011/12. While the data could be a sign of early progress on this important health indicator, it's important to keep in mind that the child obesity rate has increased exponentially over the past few decades.
The results from the 2012 Colorado Health Report Card are out, and the findings are clear: health and the economy are inextricably linked.