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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This guidebook is designed to be used by practitioners, educators, decision-makers, citizens, and community organizations. It is organized into seven chapters that focus on health issues related to community engagement, the natural environment, water, food, buildings, open space and streetscapes, and mobility. The expectation is for the guidebook to contribute in a meaningful way to continued efforts to make communities healthy, vibrant, and complete...
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...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
This report presents initial efforts toward monitoring the changes in marijuana use patterns, potential health effects of marijuana use, and the most recent scientific findings associated with marijuana use to help facilitate evidence-based policy decisions and science-based public education campaigns.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
In late 1987, Schlage Lock Company, located in Security, Colorado, discovered that the groundwater beneath their manufacturing facility was contaminated with the chemical tetrachloroethylene, which is also known as perchloroethylene (PCE). Schlage utilized the solvent as a metal cleaner and degreaser during the production of door locks and related hardware from 1977-1992. Improper disposal and/or storage of spent PCE led to contaminated soil beneath...
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Series
Health watch volume no. 93
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The home environment is commonly considered to be a place of safety and comfort for people. However harmful exposures can occur in the home and some Colorado populations have increased risk to these exposures. Unhealthy housing conditions from radon and secondhand smoke exposures occur disproportionately within Colorado populations, resulting in health equity and environmental justice issues.
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