{"id":114714,"date":"2015-02-09T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-state-of-health-in-colo\/"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:06:51","slug":"the-state-of-health-in-colo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-state-of-health-in-colo\/","title":{"rendered":"The state of health in Colo."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Family income correlates strongly with overall health in the new 2015 Colorado Health Report Card, which means many children in the state will need a better start to get and stay healthy.<\/span>Nancy Michael\/Flickr Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

DENVER \u2013 Colorado just got its Report Card on Health \u2013 and Coloradans did not get straight A\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Adults ranked first in the nation for physical activity as well as keeping obesity and diabetes under control. But kids \u2013 especially poor children and children of color \u2013 scored significantly lower than their higher-income counterparts.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hughes, of the Colorado Children\u2019s Campaign, said children need more than access to health care and environments where families can make healthy choices.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have access to a park in your neighborhood that is safe,\u201d she said, \u201cyou might be more likely to go outside, run around, bring your kids to the playground, than if you\u2019re low-income \u2026 and there\u2019s crime in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes said the 2015 Colorado Health Report Card, released Thursday at the Legislature, shows the state needs to focus on low-income children and children of color.<\/p>\n

The report said the infant mortality rate for African-American babies is more than twice that of white infants, and Hispanic women are less likely to receive prenatal care than are other women.<\/p>\n

More than one in five children lives in a low-income family. Hughes said reaching them when they\u2019re young will make a huge difference in preventing chronic conditions in adulthood, such as diabetes and heart disease.<\/p>\n

She said poor health outcomes will put a big financial strain on the state in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, ensuring that kids have healthy habits when they\u2019re young, and they have access to the care that they need to stay healthy, is going to affect all of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Low-income older adults also got low grades compared with higher-wage earners. For example, only 15 percent of seniors living on $75,000 a year or more reported poor health. But of those living on $10,000 a year or less, 43 percent reported poor health.<\/p>\n

The 2015 Colorado Health Report Card is postede online at www. ColoradoHealth.org\/ReportCard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poor, children of color need help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-114714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114714","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=114714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114714"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}