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This fact sheet provides information about some of the major health indicators for the Hispanic/Latino population in Colorado. Like other communities of color, Hispanics/Latinos experience some differences in health, risk factors and behaviors in comparison to other population groups. The data presented show comparisons between the Hispanic/Latino population and the States population as a whole and identifies where there are differences.

"For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion--quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic...

Every five years, Colorado's Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program conducts a state-level needs assessment of the health and well-being of women, children, youth and families to guide state and local public health work and to meet Title V MCH Block Grant requirements. The goal of the assessment is to gather information to understand what issues are facing this population and then to identify seven to ten specific priorities that can be positively...