{"id":108016,"date":"2015-11-26T00:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/survey-income-access-hamper-healthy-living\/"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:17:53","slug":"survey-income-access-hamper-healthy-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/survey-income-access-hamper-healthy-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Income, access hamper healthy living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report shows many Coloradans face barriers to health-promoting activities such as walking, cycling, and accessing fresh food where they live, work and play.<\/span>Wavebreakmedia\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The survey found more than half of the state\u2019s residents say they can\u2019t walk to a fully stocked grocery store, and more than one-in-three don\u2019t have easy access to outdoor recreation. Karen McNeil-Miller, president and CEO of the Colorado Health Foundation, says some Coloradans face bigger barriers than others.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticularly low-income and Latino people were more likely to report their communities lacked adequate green space, bike lanes, the area had too much traffic or the area had too much crime to make it safe for them to be out with their children walking or biking,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

McNeil-Miller notes 49 percent of Latinos reported lack of recreation areas compared with just 31 percent of whites, and nearly half of people earning less than $25,000 a year said their neighborhoods didn\u2019t have enough outdoor spaces or bike lanes.<\/p>\n

The survey shows current land-use and design patterns are at odds with the healthy lifestyle many Coloradans say they want.<\/p>\n

More than half prefer neighborhoods where they don\u2019t have to drive a car, 87 percent ranked the quality of the environment as a top priority, and a majority want access to healthful food, green space and walkable neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

McNeil-Miller says health goes well beyond visits to a doctor\u2019s office, and good community design can contribute to and even reverse troubling health trends.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth is everyone\u2019s business,\u201d she says. \u201cSo if you\u2019re an urban planner, how healthy are we making these neighborhoods? Are we building neighborhoods with sidewalks, are we building neighborhoods with bike lanes? Where we live has a lot to do with how healthy we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNeil-Miller says she\u2019s hopeful the report will be a tool leaders across the state can use to help improve the health of all Coloradans, regardless of income, age or ethnicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report shows many Coloradans face barriers to health-promoting activities such as walking, cycling, and accessing fresh food where they live, work and play.Wavebreakmedia\/iStockphoto The survey found more than half of the state\u2019s residents say they can\u2019t walk to a fully stocked grocery store, and more than one-in-three don\u2019t have easy access to outdoor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[120,13,61,912],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-108016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-health","tag-national-or-ethnic-minority"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108016"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=108016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}