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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.
Findings from this Colorado Health Institute brief suggest that dental insurance can address cost barriers to accessing dental care for Colorado’s children and families. And while most Colorado children have good oral health, low income children are more likely to have fair or poor teeth, the two lowest levels
Frequently-asked questions on the new child obesity data in the 2011/12 National Survey of Children’s Health.
About 29,000 Colorado children received health care services at one of 45 SBHCs during the 2010-11 school year, up from 27,500 the year before.