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DDPHE releases Community Health Assessment: 90,000 uninsured, housing and racism named priorities
Summary
Denver's Department of Public Health & Environment presented a published Community Health Assessment that identifies three priorities for the next five-year Community Health Improvement Plan: access to health care (about 90,000 uninsured), safe and affordable housing (37% cost-burdened), and systemic racism with marked life-expectancy disparities.
Nathan Keffer, community assessment and improvement planning senior analyst at the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE), told the council on June 4 that the CHA is published as an interactive story map and is the basis for a five-year Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).
DDPHE said the CHA involved extensive community engagement: dozens of partner organizations, 12 focus groups, two town halls (with a third planned in Westwood in Spanish), and a survey of more than 2,000 Denver residents. "We heard from over 2,000 folks in our community health assessment survey," Keffer said, describing the breadth of input used to identify priorities.
Agnes Marcos, lead data analyst at DDPHE,…
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