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Obesity is top of mind for many these days. What's the problem, why does it matter, what are we doing about it, and what's next? CHI's Sara Schmitt summarizes the latest updates in Colorado.
Creative Services Manager Brian Clark is on the road capturing images of health care in Colorado for a special upcoming CHI project. He is filing occasional dispatches from the road to highlight some of the people and places he encounters.
I've been thinking a lot about life during this most recent leg of my trip. Not because I had some deep realization during a four-hour drive from Craig to Montrose, but because of the two events that bookended the drive.
At CHI, we're in the process of putting together a very special gift to the community to help celebrate our ten-year anniversary.
One in five Coloradans were obese in 2011, according to new prevalence rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
When you are trying to solve a problem, how do you know what will work? Health topics are usually complicated, and figuring out the best course of action is often challenging. The 14th Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care provided training on how to use evidence to guide the decision making process.
As clinicians, policy analysts, insurers and employers, we have an opportunity to focus the spotlight on BMI documentation. We must first measure obesity in order to change it.
There’s not much in the Farm Bill providing incentives for farmers to grow the health-inspiring bounty that can be found at most farmer’s markets, according to Jennifer Billig of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy during a recent trip to Denver.
If current prevalence trends continue, the estimated cost of diabetes in Colorado will total approximately $8.3 billion (in 2006 dollars) by 2030.
Americans now walk the least of any industrialized nation, yet we are hearing more about workplace wellness. Where do the two intersect?