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Maternal and Child Health (MCH) public health is distinctive among the public health professions for its lifecycle approach. This approach integrates theory and knowledge from multiple fields including human development, as well as women's, child and adolescent health.

The Colorado SIM Operational Plan charts a path to achieving Colorado SIM's overarching goal: to improve the health of Coloradans by providing access to integrated physical and behavioral health care services in coordinated community systems, with value-based payment structures, for 80 percent of Colorado residents by 2019. The SIM Operational Plan outlines Colorado's four-pillar approach to innovation: 1) providing access to integrated primary care...

In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes...

The Colorado Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a system of telephone surveys to monitor lifestyles and behaviors related to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity.

Colorado has a behavioral health system that works for some people, but not all. The Behavioral Health Task Force heard from hundreds of Coloradans who are continuing to struggle to access the care they need for themselves or a loved one. Tragically, many of these stories ended up in the death of a loved one. In 2018, Colorado had the seventh-highest suicide rate in the nation. Additionally, 15.3% of Coloradans reported poor mental health in 2019,...

In early 2014, Office of Behavioral Health initiated a 15-month project to produce an exploratory behavioral health equity report for the state of Colorado. Committed to improving and promoting behavioral health equity in the state, OBH partnered with OMNI Institute, a Denver-based non-profit social science research firm, to lead this effort.