Talking Green: Changing Climate Impacts Human Health
Steamboat Today cites Colorado Health Institute's 2017 report "Colorado's Climate and Colorado's Health" in a piece about the connection between climate and health. Read the story here.
The Tide pod challenge is dumb. But is it catching on in Colorado?
The Denver Post reports on a blog by CHI's Karam Ahmad about the small number of calls to poison control centers from intentional eating of laundry pods. Read the story here.
Methadone clinics in Colorado have doubled in 3 years
An Associated Press story on methadone clinics cites a CHI study on the lack of adequate treatment for people dependent on opioids. Read the story in the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
Enrollment dips on Colorado’s health insurance exchange
The Denver Post quotes CHI's Joe Hanel in a front-page story about the end of Connect for Health Colorado's open enrollment period for 2018 coverage. Read the story here.
How to Get Well Soon
The Colorado Trust outlines the big topics discussed at CHI's annual Hot Issues in Health Conference. Read the full story here.
Colorado AG Coffman says evidence supports syringe exchange programs
The Colorado Springs Gazette highlighted Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman's comments on harm reduction and the opioid crisis at CHI's Hot Issues in Health. Read the full story here.
We all agree health care costs too much. Here’s what Colorado’s next governor might do about it.
Denverite covered the governor's panels at CHI's Hot Issues in Health. Read the full story here.
A new way to track our mental health indicators
Mental Health Colorado partnered with CHI to create their new data dashboard which helps track mental health indicators across age groups. The dashboard includes data from CHI’s Colorado Health Access Survey. Read more about the new data dashboard here
The Healthiest State In The Country Has Some Of The Steepest Premiums
The national news organization FiveThirtyEight quotes CHI's Edmond Toy in a story examining the contrast between high insurance prices and long life expectancies in Colorado's mountain communities. Read the story here.
Why tens of thousands of Coloradans choose to pay a fine rather than buy health insurance
The Denver Post covers CHI's report which Coloradans paid the Affordable Care Act tax penalty. Read the story here.