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The results of the 2016 Colorado Health Report Card, released today, mark a decade of progress and challenges on the way to making Colorado the healthiest state.
People young and old, urban and rural, are making it clear that they want their surroundings to promote healthy living, not discourage it. And builders are taking notice.
That trend is behind CHI’s continuing look into the connection between health and the “built environment.”
When Maggie Bailey and I first analyzed drug overdose deaths in Colorado counties over the past 13 years, we were shocked by the dramatic changes revealed by the time-lapse map we created to present the data.
The word “health” probably brings to mind a visit to the doctor, health insurance or a prescription for medicine. But many other things influence good health.
For instance, the physical environment matters. A lot.
Few policies intended to help people live longer are more effective than those targeting teen pregnancy rates. Yet even when those policies work, they are fraught with controversy and conflict.
Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to other counties in the same state? This look at Colorado comes from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program.
What if Colorado could avoid 4,800 premature deaths? What if 247,000 Coloradans could cut back on their problem drinking? And what if 149,000 households could find a safe and reasonably priced place to live?
If access to care were an Olympic sport, Colorado would score a 7.9, according to the Colorado Health Institute’s newly updated Colorado Access to Care Index.
Colorado may have the nation’s lowest adult obesity rate, but that rate isn’t budging - resting above 20 percent for the past four years.
This three-year Colorado Health Institute project tracked the impact of policies, programs and politics on statewide efforts designed to make Colorado a healthier state.