Colorado. Department of Public Health and Environment.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In Colorado, tobacco claims the lives of 4,300 Colorado smokers each year. As it makes its way to our youth, 92,000 Colorado kids age 18 or younger will ultimately die prematurely from smoking. Smoking alone kills more Americans each year than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murder, and suicides...COMBINED. As Coloradans, we pay through the lives of our loved ones and also pay an average of $570 per household in state and federal taxes...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
During this pandemic, the State is working to make life as sustainable as possible, while ensuring we do not surpass our public health and health care capacities. Carefully maintaining the effective reproductive or R number at or below 1 helps prevent the exponential spread of the COVID-19 virus. Different levels of "openness" that are standardized at the county level will help maintain this delicate balance.
97) 2016 waste audit
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Shows how much waste Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment produces, how much of that is diverted from the landfill and how much is recycled.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The visualizations in this tool provide data at your fingertips for prioritized chronic disease and behavioral health measures in Colorado. The purpose of the tool is to provide data and visualizations for assessments and data driven public health planning and program work. Data in this tool is updated as the data source allows to provide the most recent information for Colorado health measures.
100) Colorado marijuana
Pub. Date
2014
Description
This website was created to provide statewide current information for the general public about the laws, data and health effects of marijuana. The information available here will continually expand to feature a Spanish language version of the site, newly released data and public awareness campaigns to inform Coloradans.
