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This project is a series of interactive dash boards, accompanied by in-depth analyses, focusing on the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. The survey collects health information every other year from Colorado public school students.
Behavioral health is a hot topic in Colorado these days – and for good reason.
Suicide rates have reached an all-time high. The rate of opioid overdoses continues to climb. And in 2015, nine percent of Coloradans – or 440,000 residents – said they needed mental health care or counseling but did not get it, according to the Colorado Health Access Survey (CHAS).
This Data Spotlight digs deep into one slice of the data — health in rural Colorado.
Has Colorado improved its grade point average when it comes to health? This annual report card from the Colorado Health Foundation, created in partnership with CHI, provides a decade’s worth of annual updates related to the state’s progress on 38 key health indicators. Learn where Colorado has made headway. And discover where it still needs to improve.
Colorado consistently ranks well nationally on health-related measures such as obesity and physical activity. But Colorado also is in the top 10 of a list no state wants to win — the highest rate of suicides.
The Colorado Health Observation Regional Data Service (CHORDS) is a unique regional network of health care, public health, and behavioral health partners that used electronic health record data to identify health trends and support public health evaluation and monitoring efforts.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore sexual health in Colorado’s high schools using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
An index created by the Colorado Health Institute to measure Colorado’s progress in improving access to health care for its residents.
One of the first questions that Allie Morgan, CHI’s Legislative Director and Policy Analyst, asked me when I interviewed here was, “How confident are you with Excel?” Sure enough, my first project at CHI exposed me to more spreadsheets, tables and lists than I had seen in my lifetime.
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.