Income, race, geography and other factors contribute to wide disparities in health outcomes across our state. We report on how Colorado residents are impacted by these inequities, and what they're doing about it.
Trans and nonbinary people face significant barriers when trying to access gender-affirming health care. ECHO Colorado is working to change that.
The pandemic has fed on inequality, and demonstrated the value of collective action.
A diagnosis that changed everything for a pregnant woman from Colorado Springs.
In communities with many reasons to distrust government efforts, vaccine distribution efforts by tribal and urban Native programs have expanded access and eased worries.
Access to nutritious, affordable food is now a struggle for more than one-third of Coloradans, a recent survey found.
Statewide, a quarter of households are struggling to cover their home energy costs.
Increased visibility and a string of victories in 2020 also stirred up opposition to efforts to change mascots and other Native causes.
Much like the rest of the country, Colorado is struggling to equitably vaccinate populations and communities impacted most by the coronavirus.
Administering the COVID-19 vaccine to people experiencing homelessness was always going to be difficult. Colorado is making it appreciably harder.
Stagnating wages and the pandemic are accelerating efforts underway in the Denver metro area to provide housing and services.
Understaffed shelters in western Colorado are straining to care for people experiencing homelessness, including those testing positive for the coronavirus.
The devastation of the coronavirus in long-term care facilities has brought new urgency and creativity to the work of getting people out of them.
