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This interactive dashboard and analysis explore smoking among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
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.
It's been only a few years since I strolled the halls of East High School, chatting with other students about various trivialities — soccer tryouts, our crushes and our weekend plans. But in every class, I remember taking standardized tests and surveys, providing my responses by filling in the entire circle as instructed, “completely and darkly with a No. 2 pencil.” As a summer intern at the Colorado Health Institute (CHI), I analyzed how Colorado’s high school students answered one of those very same surveys.
A first-of-its-kind analysis of children living in the city of Denver finds certain neighborhood characteristics are more often associated with whether a child is obese.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore violence in Colorado’s high schools using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
Adolescence is a time of great change, many unknowns and great opportunity. And for some, it’s a critical time to get the help they need.
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.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) used adult and child state survey data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) to measure the relationship between parental mental health and child mental health outcomes.
Many students deal with stress brought on by academic expectations, peer pressure, bullying and other factors. All that stress can take a toll on a young person’s mental health.