Berthoud Community Library District

Outlines a program for a lifetime of healthy eating that emphasizes balance, moderation, and variety, and includes more than fifty recipes, advice on shaping one's diet to suit individual needs, and tips for stocking a healthy kitchen.

Multiple programs within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) utilize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies in order to visualize, update, integrate, manage and analyze spatial data pertaining to the well-being of Colorado's public health and environment.

When an individual is experiencing a severe mental breakdown or substance abuse emergency, they may be involuntarily committed to a mental health institute, if they pose an immediate danger to themselves or people in their community. These involuntary commitments, used for treatment or care, are meant to be used a last resort when less restrictive alternatives are unavailable.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...

A platform for visualizing geographic disparities for selected social determinants of health, life expectancy estimates, and key health conditions/outcomes across Colorado. Examples of the health determinants include: Population density, Life Expectancy, Age, Disability, Education, Employment, Income/poverty, Language, Race/ethnicity, Asthma, Diabetes, Drug overdose, Heart disease, Low birth weight, Teen fertility, Suicide. Data can be downloaded....