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Health care policy and hamsters. It's quite a week at the Colorado Health Institute.
Retail giant CVS – the country’s second-largest drugstore chain, behind Walgreens – pulled all tobacco products from its shelves on September 3.
World Heart Day was September 29. The World Heart Foundation started the observance in an effort to create heart-healthy environments and promote heart-healthy choices. It’s a good day to ask just how heart-healthy Colorado really is.
A new Colorado Health Institute report analyzes the role of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in our state using data from an annual survey, which is administered by the Colorado Health Institute in collaboration with the Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care (CASBHC).
Fifty years ago, the Beatles sang, “I don’t care too much for money, ‘cuz money can’t buy me love.” While that’s still true, it’s also true that in 2014, money can mean better health.
It feels as though conference season is upon us. Colorado Health Institute staffers have been busy attending and presenting at conferences across the state.
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.
The world of health policy is full of numbers, but few are as closely watched as the figures the Colorado Division of Insurance released Monday: the new health insurance prices the division approved for 2015.
Here at the Colorado Health Institute, we strive to communicate important health policy data and information in an accurate and timely manner. Lately, this has meant providing analysis of data on the same day it is released.
How many Coloradans are uninsured? CHI’s fact sheet discusses three recent estimates (the Current Population Survey, the American Community Survey, and the Colorado Health Access Survey) and explains why they differ.