Our Work
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.
Since 2007, Colorado children under age 13 gained health insurance at a faster rate than any other age group in the state. That’s one of the findings of the latest Colorado Health Report Card, which was released this week.
Gardens next to playgrounds, salad bars in lunch rooms, field trips to farms. Schools are revamping nutrition and health education with Farm to School programs that make healthy eating fun, interactive and tangible for kids.
For every category, Colorado’s Hispanic high schoolers outdrink their peers, with a higher percentage of Hispanic students drinking at least one of each type of SSB per day.
This is the first in a two-part Insight series on sugar-sweetened beverages.
For parents sending their kids off to kindergarten, back-to-school preparation involves more than new backpacks and sharpened pencils. For many families, it’s also time for vaccinations.
Nearly a quarter (23.5 percent) of Colorado children 12 and under live in households with incomes below the poverty level.
These data suggest that as the economy worsened, many children moved from private to public insurance.